The Glass Cannon Podcast - Strange Aeons Episode 17 – One Crazy Knight

Episode Date: June 20, 2022

As the Strange Aeons Marathon continues, the party must fall back to regroup after a gruesome and horrifying loss. Will they be able to find another to aid them in the battles that lie ahead on the upper floors of the asylum? Join Troy Lavallee, Joe O'Brien, Skid Maher, Grant Berger and Matthew Capodicasa as they tour the country playing the Lovecraftian Horror Strange Aeons Pathfinder Adventure Path. Watch the video here: https://youtu.be/u93BsAWkE0s Recap 25:25 Gameplay 31:32 For more podcasts and livestreams, visit glasscannonnetwork.com and for exclusive content and benefits, subscribe today at patreon.com/glasscannon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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On to night two What a night it was Two we'll uh We'll hum Dinger Think some uh there was some Real emotion a lot of uh Anger uh from you guys Um, dinger. I think there was some real emotion. A lot of anger from you guys.

Character death. And little bits of story reveal. And two whole combats in four hours. We're so slow. Everything you'd expect from us I have a feeling We're going to get through a little bit more tonight But maybe we won't

I don't know, I really feel confident That at the end of tomorrow's session We will finish Book one of Strange Aeons But a lot is going to depend on what happens tonight Are you guys excited? Let me ask you this I know you're excited

Do you feel better? A lot is going to depend on what happens tonight. You guys excited? Let me ask you this. I know you're excited. Do you feel better? Because there was a, there were a lot of, there were a lot of, what's the word I'm looking for? There was a lot of vitriol last night. A lot of tense action from that ghoul fight that resulted. Spoiler alert, if you're watching. I'm assuming you watched last night. If you didn't, sorry. Mrs. Old Lady's dead.

She is permanently dead. And it was almost Aldo that bit it. But instead, it was Mrs. Oh, so I'm going to start with you, Matthew. Matthew, are you upset? Are you over it? Are you... Talk to me.

How are you feeling? I'm feeling okay. I mean, it's sad to see her go. You'll love Mrs. Old Lady. She was fun to play when people were sending us inordinate amounts of shots. That didn't

happen last night. She was still fun, I discovered. I mean, is it Joe's fault? Who can say? Who's to say, besides everyone watching? Is it my fault? I mean, why even? Who's to say, besides everyone watching? Is it my fault? I mean, why even? She's dead.

Do you regret? I mean, listen, no one likes to live with regrets, but do you regret not doing the full withdraw now? Or do you think, do you really stand by that her doing that meant death sentence for Aldo? I mean, metagaming, I can see if I if i had full i'd see how it

totally would have worked out if i had done the full withdraw in fact i knew it would work out even before joe told me how to play my character but uh i don't accept that either i uh i just i was i couldn't justify it without metagaming that she would just run away after she had like brazenly barreled into the room to distract them from Aldo. I mean, she doesn't know about the action economy. She knows what ghouls do, but it's not like she's like, well, if I move this far away, then they won't have the distance to close. So I was like, I liked it. I was like, let's just roll with it.

Let's see what happens. Let's play a little. I knew I would have the fortitude save if you did the Kutagr so we're just leaving it in the dice i mean bold as f you the minute you like that goal clogged the door without hesitation you uh tried to move through an enemy space you had a very small percentage of uh it happening without uh provoking and you made it through you rolled like an 18 or something and you needed to get either an 18, 19, or 20. Obviously, you provoked from the guy above, but you got into the room, and that evidently, now we can say, it saved Aldo's life. I mean, the wall of ice did, too. The wall of ice was great.

Skid, you were a fortitude save away from permadeath. And we saw a good Skid anger anger uh really come out we hadn't seen that in a while uh are you feeling better today now that he survived yeah i was feeling better i was very angry i just wanted to get this goddamn scene that i've been working on out and have it still be relevant which it could still not happen it could still not happen it's true it's true but i was also upset about mrs o'lady dying i was very sad about that because i love mrs o'lady but then after we wrapped i was reminded what matthew's backup character is and then i was not upset anymore yeah yeah well that's a good thing about any of

our characters dying it's always exciting to see what comes next joe you were uh you were pretty fired up from uh the middle of the show on we we were giving it to you pretty hard for obviously being the reason mrs o'lady died um and some other stuff, you know, just classic O'Brien stuff, some natural ones when you want some hits to come through, some save-or-suck spells that I just happened to roll Natty 17s on. How are you feeling today? You got your eyeliner and your rouge. You look like you might have some foundation on.

You're looking smart. Thanks, buddy. How can you be mad with a face like that i'm feeling good i'm feeling good i i woke up still angry uh but a lot like skid i did uh you know i was going back and forth my i really what i was so angry about was how how foolish matthew was and then the entire you know explanation being like he didn't want a metagame. Have you ever heard of a tactical withdrawal? That's not running away. It's called a tactical withdrawal. Draw the enemy to you. Anyway. I did. I did exactly that.

Yeah, but not enough. You half-assed. And then I remembered a little jammed-in lift ride. Remember lift rides? A little jammed-in ride. Remember lift rides, little jammed in lift ride to the, uh, miracle theater in DC where we heard all about Matthew's backup character.

Because at that point, Mrs. Old lady was, you know, low percentage chance to live. Dangling from there. And, uh,

and I was like, I was building it in the car. Yeah. He was building it in the car yeah he was building it in the car going over what it was going to be and I didn't know about it until last night either so this morning I was just like wait a minute this is the best possible

result to get this character out so yeah I'm very excited and all in all I had an absolutely great time and it got me kind of scared like how much fun I had because I was kind of like we should do this more often like play the same game multiple nights in a row so we're not like what happened last time but you know what i mean just like keep going with the same game because

i'm in the zone right now totally in the zone yeah it certainly is fun like i i feel in it even as i sat down to do more prep today i was was like, I think I kind of know where we're at now. I know this story. I've prepped this for months. I know what happens next. I'm excited to see it all come out. Grant, you weren't really angry at all last night, but you

just still continued to cheat mercilessly with your dice where we can't see your rolls. So while you weren't angry, I think it's important we call you out yet again for being a filthy, giant cheater. I actually got on the end of Skid's anger when I rolled a four on my first attack. He said, oh, come on, the first time. And it was pretty funny.

Every roll, it was the worst stretch of your rolls ever at the worst possible time for me. And that was his first actual Natty 16. And he was like, oh, man, well, I got to make it look good. Four. We talked about a lot how, you know, I'm not trusted, which is slander. Slander is life. But I've introduced new technology. These are not tied to Patreon goals at all.

This is just what Grant Berger, one day's chief technical officer of the GCP, brings to the table. Gentlemen, pay attention to the stream now. I introduce to you the Granti theft system. It is free lunch.

You can see right here. I'll make a roll real quick M19 on the die look at that gentlemen that is amazing I'm only going to go to it on special rolls I probably won't have it set up all the time but I have it set up for the marathon because I want the people who might listen to this

someday in the audio only version to realize they're missing out on patented grant burger technology the grant system as the chat saying they said check it for magnets how do we know how do we know that's not pre-recorded footage look at the screen. Okay. You see that? That's how you know. Is he giving you the business?

Wow. We've always talked about having this like, you know, Texas Hold'em, seeing the dice game. Yeah, I love it, Grant. I love it. That's fantastic. That's great. We'll certainly call on that for our life or death roll tonight. I'm still not convinced he doesn't have 16, 17, 18, 19, 20

queued up. And then he was like, Matthew's probably going to give me shit about this. Let me also record me just giving him the finger. Do you need to hold an LCD of the current time and headlines from CNN? I need a newspaper. He's got the paper that says, Hurricane Sandy rages through New York. Yeah, the newspaper. I need a newspaper. He's got like the paper that says,

Hurricane Sandy rages through New York. Come on, brother. Well, no, that is fantastic, Grant. And now I want one. Not for me, just for the rest of you. Well, I mean, this is going to be great tonight. Obviously, we had a hell of a sesh. We are nearing the end of this story. But this weekend isn't just about Strange Aeons. It's

about all the exciting things happening in the Glass Cannon Network, the return of some of your favorite shows, and all these new Patreon goals that we have. Obviously, last night, we mentioned Glass Cannon. We're getting back in the studio next month, sometime in September, to start recording Glass Cannon in person again. Stockpiling episodes so that we can start releasing them in November. And likewise, with Androids and Aliens, we're going to be doing remote shows that are going to be every Friday. Instead of doing every other Friday for three hours, we're going to do every Friday for about 90 minutes a pop and those are going to come back on Twitch in November as well so get excited

for November it's going to be a fun time over the holidays when people stop listening to podcasts to bring back some of our big content but there are other shows in the network that we didn't talk about so I think we should talk about those shows obviously There are other shows in the network that we didn't talk about. So I think we should talk about those shows.

Obviously, one of the big shows of the quarantine has been Legacy of the Ancients. We didn't want to record Raiders of the Lost Continent remotely. We didn't want to record any of our shows remotely. We didn't know what the technology was going to be like. And honestly, I think it's only been about a week and a half until we feel like really comfortable with our remote setup. Would you agree? We've switched to this new system that Grant's using that's phenomenal. I think we're almost at a point where we're like,

this is, we're at as good as it's going to get without buying 19 computers and putting them in a room with a producer somewhere with like 10 Fios modems. So at the time, we were like, why don't we just start a new show? People want to see us, Skid, run Rise of the Rune Lords. This is a great time to do it,

and let's see what happens. So Raiders of the Lost Continent, like our other shows, kind of took a hiatus. So the plan is, and this is something that we really wanted Skid to, like, what excites Skid? Because Skid's the one running these games. And so we were tossing around ideas, and we're like, what if we just rotate back and forth? We'll finish a book of Legacy of the Ancients, our Rise of the Runelord show, and then get back into Raiders, finish this book that we're in, which I couldn't even tell you where we are in the book because we've been off book

for about 15 episodes, and then maybe do the next book, and then come back with Legacy, but just kind of rotate. And Skid, you're really into this idea because it allows you to stay fresh, right? Yeah, I'm super excited about that. It's the different kind of seasons almost. Yeah, because I want to keep doing both, but it just would be impossible to do them concurrently. So I think that's a great solution.

Yeah, I'm excited about it. And I'm really excited as much as I'm enjoying Legacy to get back recording Raiders. So even though I couldn't even tell you where we are in Raiders, we just leveled up after 17 episodes. But I feel like now we're back in the zone with the, you know, back on track with the story. So once we finish season one, book one of Rise of the Runelords,

you know, next week you'll start getting Raiders of the Lost Continent. So every Friday you're going to hear Skid run in the game. That's really the most important part. And then there's this Echo Quest Super Dungeon which is obviously a show that was just about, just kind of finding its legs and then

I think of all the shows, Echo Quest was probably hurt the most. Wouldn't you agree, Joe? It didn't have a chance to catch its speed and then it was just getting there before the virus hit. So let's talk about what we're going to do with Echo Quest, Joe. So the plan with Echo Quest right now is we really enjoy playing second edition, and man, do we love playing with Sydney and Kaya.

And so we want to get it going again, and we're not going to wait until we're back in the studio. So we are going to record it remotely from home, not live or anything, just keeping it as an audio show like it was. And Kaya and Sydney have gotten up to speed on tech, audio-wise and everything, because luckily, outside of us, they have a lot going on. And the world is changing. Everybody's got to have this, if you're an entertainer, all this equipment from home. So their stuff is looking up to snuff and really good. And so we're excited to, uh,

to get back to recording that. And, uh, so the plan as of right now is to finish out the second level where we are right now, and then take a break and, uh, we'll see when and if it comes back,

it's really going to depend on the Patreon and what people want to see. And I think that's part of the excitement that I have about the seasonal format. It's going to give people a chance to catch up on content, see what shows they like, see what they want to listen more to. And so right now, instead of bogging ourselves down, we want to focus on getting out Glass Cannon, getting out Androids, and maintaining a steady pace of Legacy of the Ancients and hopefully New Game Houdis.

And so with all those considerations, we're going to record Echo Quest to kind of wrap up a season, as it were, and then we'll put it on hiatus until such time as we bring it back. Yeah, that's pretty exciting. Obviously, we need to be playing more 2E. We enjoy it, but we only get to play it in short bursts. So it'll be fun to at least finish out this second level and then the future will decide for itself about what happens with more Echo Quest. thinking more like a network and really looking at a slate of shows and saying, hey, what things can be seasonal?

What things can be, hey, listen to this for a while, instead of every show having to be every week. And we never liked doing every other week. So it's like, why don't we just do a burst, an episode by, a series, and then we'll take a break. And then when people are hungry for it again, we'll release a whole bunch of episodes. That model seems to have worked for a lot of different shows for a long time. And so we want to take our shot at it and let the audience decide

what they want to hear. And that's what we want to focus on. Yeah. And like that, some shows may get canceled. Like if there's more excitement for other stuff we're doing, like Delta Green, if it's like everyone wants Delta Green and we keep putting out a show that is kind of getting a warm reception, well, just for business, we got to do the show that people want. And that's going to be tough. Like what if people are like, you know what? I don't really want to listen to Glass Canada anymore. I'd be like, well, too bad.

That one's never getting canceled. But beyond that. That's my show. My show's okay canceled. Everything else is on the table. Last couple of things and then we'll jump into the show which i'm very excited about tonight terrified of tomorrow night uh excited about tonight um obviously we released a bunch of new goals we hit one of them one of the new goals during the stream last night the 70 000 goal

uh the gcn employee lounge movie night we should just call it skid movie night uh because uh from now on every once in a while skid is going to be hosting a movie night i mean just call it skid movie night uh because uh from now on every once in a while skid is going to be hosting a movie night i mean everybody's going to be there from time to time uh just watching movies mst3k style uh in the glass cannon network employee lounge uh the next one uh that uh we could hit very well tonight 71 000 is cannon fodder uh moving to Twitch as a live show and having the audio released to our new $10 premium audio subscription tier. So that's very exciting. And then you can see the rest of our goals.

They're all on Patreon for you guys to see. And then, Joe, the annual plans. People were popping and locking all night long jumping to the annual plan. Yeah, this has been fantastic. Hundreds of you have already come out and upgraded to annual plans, which is such a huge boon for us. It just means a resurgence of cash flow in 2020 that we can get to help recoup from the loss of the live shows. And so getting that money earlier

for us is important. And for this weekend only, you get it at a discount of 5% if you go up to an annual plan this weekend. So try it out. Think about it. There's a link to a Patreon help article in our post on Patreon about it. And so you could read a little bit more about the details, what it entails, what happens if you want to change your pledge, all that kind of stuff. It's got all the finer points covered. And if you decide to do it, it's going to be a huge help to us. And like I said, hundreds and hundreds of people have done it already. And it makes me very, very excited for the fall this year.

I'm feeling so much better. I was very stressed. So thank you guys so much. It pays for itself after a while. Yes. Now, when we went off the air last night, Grant, you were saying that you were getting some messages, because Grant's very plugged into the community, that people wanted to upgrade. What was it again from the t-shirt tier? Yeah, there was a t-shirt tier.

I got a message from a couple people. Let me get into the old West Canyon Live, my mentions. Yeah, they were having trouble. They weren't able to move up to another tier outside of, there weren't slots open above it. I think Joe had an immediate answer to what the problem was. Yeah, and so we want to address it now because there's a lot of people who are $25 subscribers that are excited to like not only move to annual, but want to move up.

Because moving up is really what's going to help us reach those goals as well as new subscribers. But the problem is that only tiers above 25 are 50 and 100, which are sold out. And then 500, which is for, you know for the few angels we have in the outfield. So, Joe, just talk very briefly about why we can't open up any more 50 and 100s right now. Because the rewards are not fulfillable beyond what is already up there. And so we're not going to add more slates, add more spots to that, and then scramble to actually fulfill them. Because all of those rewards at 50 and 100 involve us personally hanging out with you guys. And so there's only so much time we have to do that, and so we had to cap it to keep it smart.

But that doesn't mean that you can't. If you want to kind of help chip away at those milestone goals, you can be at the $25 tier and donate $30 or subscribe at $35. You know what I mean? You have that option. So looking at that, you don't have to go up a tier to quote unquote, increase your pledge. You can increase your pledge to whatever you want and stay at the $25 tier. Now, I know that there's demand to get more slots in the $100, $50 tier. We just can't do it right now. Thing is, stuff's going to change. We're getting a huge influx of cash right now.

And that is going to factor into what our plans are in the fall. And if we look at that money and we say, you know what, we can invest that money in expanding those tiers and getting a reward that we can back financially that doesn't require – because we are capped out on time. Time we have no more of. But maybe financially we can figure out another reward that people might like at that tier or something like that and expand it a little bit more. Yeah. So anyway, the options are open. With every annual subscription we get this weekend, it just gives us the freedom to do a lot more. And so it's a great problem to have, to be honest. Thank you so much for wanting to move up.

I'm sorry that we're unable to fulfill that quantity of of spots those rewards but uh if we can figure out a way to make it happen uh we will so we can finally get that glass cannon yacht that line item was for yacht rock troy just so we can listen to yachtacht Rock. That was all that was. Last thing before we start, we're doing another giveaway tonight. We had a Norse Foundry dice giveaway last night. And, I mean, it was great. We asked people to share a screenshot of them watching the show and tag us on Instagram, at the Glass Cannon.

And it was just amazing to see how many people did that. Obviously, we had a huge number of participants and then one winner and we're gonna do the same thing again tonight and i know people like well i don't use instagram i use twitter i know i know and it's not like we don't uh love our twitter folks it's just that instagram really helps us right now business wise and so we have to help build the Instagram. Because all those people who shared their story last night, all of their followers got to see the Glass Cannon. And maybe one of them will be like, what is this Glass Cannon?

Perhaps I'll check it out. Not for me. But maybe one of those people will be like, I like the cut of their respective jibs. Here's money! And then good things happen. So, Joe, we're doing the same thing tonight or we're doing something slightly different uh no same thing tonight same thing tonight and uh yeah it's it's

yeah gonna be the same thing and what i'm hoping i'm fingers crossed i don't know it's it's a long shot but if we can get a boost of people to tune in here tonight at 8 o'clock Eastern Time, and we can crack that 2K. Norse Foundry is giving even more stuff away for people on the stream, so I would love to see it happen, but it's looking tough. It's looking tough. You guys can scramble.

Get your family and friends to tune in in 90 minutes. Like I said, I tweeted it out today. We went well over 3,000 people watched last night. They just were scattered. You know what I mean? If we could just focus on one time for five minutes. Yeah, Norse Foundry is offering, I mean, an amazing dice tray,

an amazing, it's so perfect, Cthulian dice tray. It's gorgeous with like the monster on it. I haven't seen it. It looks awesome. Fantastic. A whole set of like these ebony gem dice that just look freaking gorgeous. And then there's a huge platinum precision D20 that, I mean, you could just shatter someone's window with. So I don't know.

I think there is a lot of cool stuff they want to help us give away. So please, let's try to hit those numbers. That would be awesome. Also, there's trivia again today. So hit up our story. And if you know the answer and sadly, it deals with Mrs. Oh lady,

if I'm not mistaken. So see if you can answer the question and, and you'll be entered into win. And hopefully we'll get a winner on that by nine o'clock and we'll announce that tonight too. Grant. I also pledged to up the ante. Should we hit 2,000 viewers

simultaneously tonight, I will also wear eyeliner on the stream. I'm going to be in there with solidarity with Joe, I promise. Should we make this a thing? Yeah. I mean, if everyone wants to join, feel free. Maybe it's kind of like the Ice Bucket Challenge, but, you know, different.

I'll do it. I'll wear eyeliner. I like wearing eyeliner. If we get to 2000, on the break, I'll go off and put on some eyeliner. I think you guys can pull it off. You won't look like Joel Grey got hit in the face with a potato. He looks like Liza Minnelli with a beard.

That's a musical theater reference that I didn't make. Yeah, if we get $2,000, I will also put on eyeliner. And as earlier promised, I will get a cat. That's right. I forgot you promised that. Oh, my God. Look at a cat. There's a lot riding on this.

There's a lot riding on this. Please no one mention the cat thing to my wife otherwise joe texter um yeah no i i i listen i'm not against it i just uh i i said it's not gonna happen and uh and then i laughed and laughed when joe said they may come at eight uh exactly where we have our planned intermission so So let's see what happens. In the meantime, Grant, I think you've done some fun work overnight. I would love to see it.

I think everyone would. As we do at all Glass Cannon Lives, let's do it again for the Strange Aeons Marathon. Take it to the recap. Recap. I want to hear it. Look at that logo! Wow.

Oh, the music's good. There's no way we own that. Awesome. I mean, it's 100% getting flagged for copyright right you know the worst thing is it's in the first 25 minutes of the stream so now the VOD will be just muted for the first half hour

it's the service that provides the licenses don't worry about it Joe fingers crossed it was gorgeous though it was gorgeous worth it worth losing all that revenue last night debatable It was gorgeous, though. It was gorgeous. Worth it. Worth losing all that revenue. Last night. Debatable.

Debatable. Last night I did a big long-ass recap. Sorry, hold on a second. I'm sorry. What? Did we actually say what the rules were for the entry? Or did we just say they're the same as last night? Did you say what they were? I mentioned it sort of briefly.

Take a picture of yourself Of the stream A screenshot of the stream And post it on your story And tag us at the glass counter That's all you gotta do And we have somebody tracking all these And then picking randomly Yeah, we'll pick a winner at 9 o'clock-ish

Thank you Troy, take it to the recap I've already lost my steam for it So I'm just gonna skip it Okay If you watch the the stream you know what happened no but i was saying that yesterday i did a long recap that kind of took us through the whole story and i think it was enlightening to a lot of people uh here at the table because

we haven't really thought of the story as broad as that even though i always do a recap in the live shows there was a lot of information there that you may have forgot about, both the viewers and the players. A lot has happened. And then, of course, last night, over the course of four hours, even more happened. You started off in this room that looks like it used to be maybe an old group therapy room or something that had been transformed into a room of torture cages. There were bodies, dead bodies in these cages and ghouls in there. This is what it was like in Boston. You came in, you fought these ghouls, you defeated them. There was one survivor that you kind of nursed back to health

and brought to. Meanwhile, there was a box that was shaking. You lift it up and you see that the ghouls, not only were they torturing and killing humans, they were torturing this beautiful little corgi. So as you're like, hey, you want a milk bone? The guy was like, that corgi is nobody's seems. And then last night we started off with it transforming

into a creature known as an acipial, a sacchio acipial. Again, I might be mispronouncing it. I don't care. That was like a worm-like body with a small canine torso and a face full of gross veins sticking out of its mouth. This thing just proceeded to climb onto your square, wrap around your body, mirror image, grapple, bite. It was ugly, but you were able, with some friendly fire from Aldo's bombs

and some choice hits from Halster, to take it out. It was at the end of that fight, though, you realize, like, we've got to rest up before we continue on. You felt like you were closer to where you needed to be. You saw the rest of the hallways. You saw where the Northwest tower may be. So you were like, let's rest up and then we'll,

we'll come back fresher. So you go back to the camp. You see Dr. Ren, you try to rest up. And as you sleep, you're all haunted by the same dream where a horse is walking around in yellow mist and then you chase the horse and you come to it and it turns to you and just vomits a multicolored

rainbow with a human face. You wake up and I think everyone except Atticus survived the dream without taking any repercussions, but Atticus took damage, woke up with a horse bite on his arm, and also wasn't able to rest, wasn't able to get the healing, which wasn't so much a big deal, but wasn't able to get his spells. So you make up a plan. You're going to go back to the chapel to take a rest

so you don't have to worry about these nightmares, and then come back and continue your exploration. So that's what you do. And your exploration takes you back to these hallways here on the map. I don't know if you have the map up, Grant. But you see that there's a hallway going down that kind of ends in a collapsed wall. And then there's doors that lead into a room where the ghouls like knocked the wall over on top of you. Nothing really

to see there. You see three doors to the south deeper down the hallway but you know that's not really where you're heading so you continue north where you see stairs going up stairs going up to presumably where Zandalus and his lieutenants are

but your immediate goal is to get to the Northwest Tower. So you enter the door to the north where you see three ghouls in tattered rags walking around, sniffing the air with their long forked tongues, licking up like they're trying to find something, a collapsed stairwell that still looks possibly climbable, hanging from the eastern wall. So you go in there, and by you, I mean Aldo, before the third ghoul comes and blocks the door and almost kills Aldo. Fight, fight, fight, fight, fight, fight, fight.

Mrs. O'Lady dies. Poops all over herself multiple times. And that's where we ended our scene. Now we have a blackout. We hop in the imagination copter, and we see beneath a pale green sky, a battle raging below. There are battalions of knights, all clad in gleaming armor, waging war with a horde of demons.

You see snarling horned creatures with six arms swing blackened blades at regiments of holy knights. Giants with insectoid heads snap their mandibles at unwitting templars. Winged beasts swoop down over the fray and pluck knights from their mounts, carrying them up into the pale sky. At the center of all of this is a knight, dressed in full plate, gleaming gold like the sun, wielding a greatsword. She faces off against a tall, slender creature with antlers growing out of its moth-like face. She's young, barely in her twenties, but the crusade has hardened her. The creature's long, snake-like tongue whips out at her face

The knight just manages to crane her neck back to avoid the tongue And brings her greatsword down, slicing through the tongue The demon issues a harrowing howl of pain And the knight leaps forward to drive her greatsword through its dark torso She whirls around, ready to take on her next foe, and surveys the carnage around her. Her fellow crusaders are falling

all around her. They are being swarmed by the demon horde. To top it all off, rain has begun to pour down upon all of this red, viscous rain that tastes as it runs into the knight's mouth of metal. She spits it out in disgust.

Sir Julie! comes a cry from behind her, and the knight whips around to see a horned demon with the body of a scorpion gore a powerfully built crusader through the shoulder. He screams, Lord Commander!

The knight screams, and she cuts a path to him. The scorpion demon scuttles away to face off against three other Templars. This knight, Sir Julie, steps in front of her fallen commander to defend him. At that moment, a handsome, imposing mounted knight, his long black hair flowing out from underneath his helm, canters over. Dark ichor and blood is splashed across his banner. But you can still make out what it

was. Two griffins rampant on a field vert. The leader of the mounted knights canters up to Sir Julie trying to survey the battlefield. We must hold our position, Lord Frederick says. We must...

Lord Frederick! Sir Julie says, pointing with her greatsword. The knights all turn and see what Sir Julie sees. A mass of giant arachnids, skittering down the side of a rock face, coming at their flank. Lord Frederick screams for his cavalry, Form up!

He motions to Ser Julie to follow. She doesn't hesitate. She leaps to her feet, bellowing a battle cry. Knights of the Dawnflower, on me! And with that, she leads her weary fellow knights of Sarenrae in a charge towards the arachnids. But it's no use. spider demons spawn are too fast And they simply overrun Sir Julie and her comrades Routing them It's carnage Absolute carnage

Lord Frederick tries to rally his cavalry But they're too boxed in And the spiders make quick work of them Sir Julie, still bloodied but still up Keeps charging through the spiders Swinging her greatsword with immense ferocity. Her comrades are falling all around her, vivisected, but still battles a spider back up a rock formation until it spits a web and scuttles over the edge of a cliff face. That's when Sir Julie sees it.

In the middle of the sky, a dark gap. Looks like a tear in the sky, a rip in the fabric of reality. Sir Julie is transfixed by this. She can't look away. The tear slowly begins to widen. As Sir Julie's eyes widen as well, she peers through the tear. And the face of this brave knight of Sarenrae splits open into a scream of pure horror. Some time passes, and now we see Sir Julie in a medical tent.

She's catatonic. She can't speak, just rocks back and forth as a medic stitches up her wounds. He tries to talk to her, but Sir Julie doesn't respond. The other surviving knights give her a but Sir Julie doesn't respond. The other surviving knights give her a wide berth. Days pass, and Sir Julie sits by herself, rocking. Not speaking a word. Medics try to feed her, but she makes no attempt to eat. They end up spoon-feeding her, encouraging her to swallow. Finally, Lord Commander Hannan approaches her. He crouches down in front of her, tries to meet her eye, and she doesn't even look at him. He just looks away, his heart

breaking for her. Weeks pass. A caravan of injured soldiers rolls through the countryside of Ustalav, finally making camp on the shores of Lake Inkarththen. We see, somewhere on the lake, a small island, with a tall stone building rising from the trees. It looks like it may have used to be some sort of fort, but it's been converted into something else. Lord Commander Hannan stands with Sir Julie, still catatonic, now in the lobby of Briarstone Asylum. It looks much different than the Briarstone lobby that we've seen. Everything is nice. There's a picture on the wall that has now been moved. Nurses stand by, ready to accept Sir Julie into their care. Lord Commander Hannan steps into Sir Julie's evasive eyeline.

He takes her hands. Sir Julie, he says, the world owes you a great debt. You have fought bravely against the forces of evil and you have sacrificed mightily. But I must ask one more thing of you. He can't quite tell if she can even hear him, but he just presses on anyway. The world is in great peril, he says.

The forces of darkness march on the people of these nations even now, and if we are to find victory, we shall need you. The Dawnflower is not done with you yet. Maybe he sees a glint of recognition in Sir Julie's mostly vacant eyes. He looks, still trying to catch her gaze. You must swear to me, he says. You must swear that you shall find a way to heal and return to us. You must try to find the peace within yourself that you fought to give the world. Sir Julie still doesn't reply. Swear it to me. I beg of you. For a moment, just a moment,

it seems that she doesn't even hear him. She stares off into the middle distance between her and the floor. But then, ever so imperceptibly, she manages a slight but definite nod. The Lord Commander smiles, and the nurses step forward, taking Sir Julie by the hand. From there, it's just a series of moments we see. We see the doctors talking with Sir Julie, her eyes still distant, still entirely uncommunicative. We see Sir Julie walking vacant through the halls of the asylum. The halls look nice.

They don't look like the halls that we've seen at this asylum. We see other patients trying to engage with her, but she cannot reply. Years pass, and Sir Julie moves, still catatonic, through her routine at the asylum as she ages right before our very eyes. Then Sir Julie, now well into her 30s,

is escorted by her doctor into a storage room in the asylum. She waves her hand to show Sir Julie something and opens a trunk to reveal Sir Julie's armor, now tarnished from years of disuse. And something in Sir Julie's eyes awakens. Now we see Sir Julie sitting in another room, polishing that armor. We see her begin to train, running, lifting chairs for weights, doing push-ups, sit-ups, pull-ups. Then we see her running through her training regimen, and some of the other patients have joined her, following her example, using makeshift things from around the asylum instead of weapons. And then we see her in the dining hall, talking with them, albeit tentatively. And then we even see her laugh with

them. She keeps training, walking foot patterns like the warrior she once was. But she is, polishing her armor. But the years continue to pass. And then Sir Julie, sitting on her bed in her room, looks up from her polishing work. And she's well into her sixties. She hears a rumble from below. Followed by screaming. And then pieces of the walls falling around her. She leaps to her feet.

Begins to don her armor hastily. It's a bit big on her now. Her frame has shrunk over the years. She's lost weight as she grew older. But it still fits. And then she opens a door. And heads towards that sound. And we black out from there and come back up on our heroes

standing around the now deceased body of Mrs. O'Lady. You know there is still work to be done here to remove the mist from this island, to face Xandalus and find a way out done here. To remove the mist from this island. To face Zandalus and find a way out of here. You've struggled mightily since the beginning against these

enemies and you know that only greater challenges lie ahead. Can you do it with only three of you? What do you do? I With only three of you? What do you do? I've got to bring her back. I've got to cut leave her hair and a puddle of her own blood and other things.

I've got to get her back. She certainly deserves proper burial rights be warmly embraced by phrasma yeah yeah no of course not we must get her up and go must head back to camp

um Halster lays down his large wooden shield that he got that protected him from being paralyzed and dead himself, and then instructs Aldo and Atticus to help grab one end of her body. And he grabs the other, and they put her on his shield like a stretcher and hoist it up above their shoulders. Probably Halster at the point at the bottom and the other two at the rear so that we can

take her back to the camp. And we'll search her body for valuables. What do you have on you, Matthew? We shake the shield until everything comes out of her pockets. Just tear it upside down. She actually has some cool, like that candle we found.

Hang on, I've got to switch my hair. I've got to open a different portfolio. It's like that incense of, hold on. Yeah, that's the kind of stuff we're definitely going to need. It's called like the candle of truth or something. Candle of spirit protection An incense of open thoughts. Cool. Yeah. Got a sword cane.

Use that for firewood. Some leather armor. A scroll. Oh. How about this? Don't worry about that. Never mind. What? This is garbage. What? Never mind. What?

No, no, no. This is garbage. What are you telling me? What do you call the scroll? Was it a scroll of save your life? Scroll of remove paralysis. The scroll of remove paralysis. Oh, my God, Matthew. God damn it.

Oh, that's amazing. Let me guess. You found it in book one of Strange Ions. I believe we did it's weird that they put that in there oh my god oh matthew i don't know if anything better is going to happen tonight than that moment i don't know if i could even guess that i might just put it on my sheet i'm gonna look it up i think it's a cleric spell so i think it's divine it's cleric oracle inquisitor paladin shaman yeah so i couldn't have cast it. I don't know why I was there.

Well, Grant should have it. It doesn't... Well, it's not listed under my list. They might not have updated it for Warpriest, but you should be able to cast that. Yeah, it's divine. I'm sure you could cast it. She has a set of thieves tools.

And a magnifying glass. And an amulet of natural armor plus one that's already spoken for. Ooh. Okay. Well, did you spend all of your starting gold with your character? Because if so, it is not spoken for. Your new character will have to roll for it. Okay.

All right, so roll off for the amulet of natural armor. Let's do it. Let's go. All right, I roll off for the Amulet of Natural Armor. Let's do it. Let's go. All right, I'm rolling for it, too. Bullshit. Just wait to deal with that. Just wait. Just show a little respect until you're a full compliment again.

We don't know if we'll survive the walk back to camp, Matthew. We're not going to not wear an Amulet of Natural Armor plus one. You guys are the worst. Plus one might be the difference between living and dying. I just want to think about how the character would think

in a moment. I'd say Grant cut away from that dice tray pretty quickly, didn't he? Yeah, you saw the four and that's it. We'll linger on the successes. We will cut away

from the failures. Until we get that room with 20 computers, 10 Fios modems, and a producer. That's the failures. Until we get that room with 20 computers, 10 Fios modems, and a producer. That's the game. And if we have that room, by the way,

we should quit the Glass Cannon podcast and just start farming Bitcoins. That's true. That's how the money's at. She also has a magnifying glass that gives a plus two bonus to a praise check,

which we learned is actually a valuable skill. Yeah, and I've got a high appraise, so I'll take that. Okay. Who won the Ambulance of Natural Armor? I have not rolled yet. Six. I guess that's Aldo.

I rolled a 13 if I get to play. No way. We're dealing with the trauma of seeing you die. Natural too. Oh, Matthew, you deserved it. Thanks, guys. All right. So you carry the body back

to the Apostle and Orpiment camp? I'm assuming? You're not going to be like, we're going to take this body for a walk through the Southern halls. Old bitey Johnson might get suspicious. Mark Johnson. All right.

So you, you carry her ever so gingerly. She's light as a feather, all that power, all that bravery. So light. And you carry her through the halls, obviously being super cautious because there's still unopened doors, there's staircases and all sorts of shit. You want to be careful. And you end up back at the apostles camp. You walk in

carrying her and everyone just turns to look at you. And the ones that are particularly crazy are kind of like afraid. They're backing up a little bit as you come in with clearly a dead body. Dr. Wren hears the hubbub, comes out of his tent. Oh, what is this? Is this a sacrifice to Zandalus and the Orpament? Oh, yes. Of course it is. Praise, praise. Wonderful, yes.

Bring her into my tent, and we shall vivisect her and burn her organs in praise of the Orpament. All hail Zandalus! All hail Zandalus! all hail Zandalus all hail Zandalus bring her in here and you get her in the tent he's like what happened

she was fine a minute ago she was killed she was killed by ghouls it was terrible she was killed by ghouls yes it was a truly ghoulish death.

Truly was, especially after having escaped so many near-brushes with death against ghouls. One after another, after another. You'd think that there would be no more. No.

Creativity of the writer was just that slim. There was only more ghoul encounters after all those nemeses. And as the odds fell, we could not stand up to it. The irony is that

after we were searching around, we managed to find a scroll of removed paralysis on her body that we could have used to save her life. Bitter irony indeed. Horrible. Horrible. Well, I will, of course, do what you need me to do. I don't need to chop her up and make a big show of it, but they will expect something.

It's not every day we have a body brought in here. Perhaps you could find other body parts while you're out there, and we could kind of fake it. But do you have a long-term plan for her? I mean, I had not thought about this. I don't know anyone here. I'm not close to anyone. If someone I knew were to die, I don't know anyone here. I'm not close to anyone. If someone I knew were to die, I don't know at this point. If we ever get out of here, does she have family?

Do you know anything about her? Well, we have a file on her that I have not thoroughly examined. Perhaps there could be some answers in there. But no, she did not speak to... She did not speak of herself at length. None of us have. Our memories are a bit foggy, as it were, so we'll have to do the research ourselves. But I'm afraid that is not our primary concern at this point.

It's a problem we will have once we get out of this horrid place. I think she deserves to be buried in her homeland. She deserves to be buried with the four bears, if we can figure out who they are, or were. So I just want to hold on to her until such time as we can get her back to where she really should be interred. Yes, do you know anyone here that could perhaps cast a gentle

repose or something of that nature? I do not. I would we would need some sort of clericic or shaman actually could i do could i do some kind of mundane sort of mummification techniques use some kind of a craft alchemy to kind of preserve her body through mundane means yeah yeah. Roll, roll. Just don't roll poorly. We'd hate to see this go foul. 20,

20. Okay. Yeah. So you're able to, uh, it's, you know, it's,

it doesn't have the magical powers of a gentle repose, but you're able to sort of, uh, get in there and, uh, yeah. Yeah. And,

uh, he promises, he's like, I, I'll do what I can to, to make sure nobody Does anything to her And hopefully we'll get out of here

And she can at least be returned To her kin I don't know I don't know what the next world looks like No better than you do But if there is one This woman deserves to To go home

She gave her life To try and save us all But if there is one, this woman deserves to go home. She gave her life to try and save us all. Sorry, I'm getting emotional. I'll be honest, I'm thinking about using this for a future character of mine, and I was just really feeling it. Anyways, I'll watch over the old bag. One could only hope that the spirits are not Hewed into this place like we are By the yellow flog that First could fly free to the next world

But we will see We will see one way or another Worst comes to worst We'll just throw her off the edge of the island And she can sink to the bottom of the sea Anyways What will you do now? bottom of the sea. Anyways, what will you do now?

We need more help. Yes, is there anyone here that you haven't told us about? Perhaps in an effort to hide their sanity as well? Because we could use someone fighting Stature. Don't know if there is anyone else here, to your knowledge.

I mean, most of the people here are either followers of Xander Luce or insane themselves. There are some of the doctors here that are on our side, as it were, but I don't think they possess the particular

skill set that you need. There is an older woman who I believe was a long-term patient here. I don't know what what her level of sanity is, shall we say. But she appears to have at one point been some sort of warrior. Either that or that's her particular craze. She thinks she is. She is wearing a full plate of armor and she goes around practicing from time to time. Practicing? Yes, but I know from asking some of the doctors who I've become friends with that she is not in her right mind.

Well, none of us are in our right mind. That is certainly not a mock against one who is armed and trained, Well, none of us are in our right mind. That is certainly not a mock against one who is armed and trained, or at least training, as far as I know. A place to start. Yeah, it is a place to start if there are no other options. Of course, I'd much rather speak to a few people before moving forward, because after all, I mean, we've already went down the road with one old lady. We saw what happened there.

I don't know that an old woman is the answer. Who else do you have? There's a gentleman who was an orderly here, and he looks like he could handle himself in a fight. Ah, him, yes. Let's speak with him. All right. Give me several minutes to roll up a new character. Matthew, what does this guy look like?

She is tall. Wouldn't that be amazing if you went into a whole other pitch of a character? That's my favorite thing about introducing new characters. If the current party is just like, no. No, we don't want this character well if you guys yeah if anybody remembers the the introduction of grant's new character that's in uh androids and aliens that was one of my all-time favorites because i thought the first one was such a great misdirection and i was like of course this is grant and like it can't wait why is troy still doing the voice of this character?

And then he totally blindsided us. That was great. So yeah, he brings the orderly in, and you talk to him for a couple minutes, and it doesn't seem like... He has horrible halitosis. Yeah, he's got bad breath and bad hygiene, and it's pretty clear he's a big guy.

He's like a level eight monk, but he has terrible breath. We're like, you know what, man? Best of luck in your future adventures. Joe's like, monk? What else you got? He's level one expert. One expert, one brawler. But he just needs something better than that going forward.

You would think that multiclassing in expert would be a good thing. Why doesn't more people do it? Why does it feel like it's a very bad thing? Why doesn't more people do it? Why doesn't more people do it? Subject-verb agreement. Why doesn't more people do it? All right.

Anyway, so let me introduce you to the old woman. Yes, I'm afraid you won't work. Let's speak with the old lady. All right. I'm not, I'll be honest, I'm not particularly friendly with her, but I can point her out to you. She mostly keeps to herself. I don't really engage.

She's not asked for my help. I have not given her help. It is not of any concern. Aldo is quite spectacular at breaking the ice. Are you not, Aldo? Oh, yeah. I'm quite the raconteur. Alright, well, she's

right over there, and he kind of points outside of the tent towards the northeast corner. She has a little tent to herself, I guess, and you see just sheets tied to the wall, making a small little tent, and a woman

sitting on a stool with her back to you, possibly shuffling a weapon. Uh, hello? Hello? So she's, uh, let's go to the map here, I'll show you where she is. Um, she, she, Hello? So she's, let's go to the map here. I'll show you where she is. She. This is great.

She's up way, way far to the northeast. Right there. Ah. All right, let's make our way up there. Surround her. Flank up there surround her flank her we don't know if she's in her right mind throw a bomb first the doctor himself said oh my god mrs. O'lady came with us

killer no she's risen she's risen as a ghoul this is what will happen to you if you don't agree with us. Sir Julie. Sir Julie. Yeah, what do you do? Hello, ma'am? Madam? It's sir.

And if you've come to recruit me for your Xandalus thing, I've told you before, I'm not interested. Xandalus. No, no, no, I'm not interested. Xanderloose. No, no, no, no. And he looks around over his shoulder and says, no, no, no, this is something a bit different. Can we talk in a way we can talk privately?

In low, hushed voices. Stage whispers. Stage whispers, you say? All right, I can do that So we recently Lost a friend Of ours Another lady of a certain age

And well we're at a bit Of a loss really as to how We're to continue see we're trying to Escape this place and figure out What's going on And her eyes brighten by By the way, she's like, so I guess I should describe her a little. Yeah. She's

well into her 60s. She somewhat resembles the Academy Award winning actor, Glenda Jackson. I'm going to look her up. And she's got a twinkle in her up and she's her she's got a her a twinkle in her eye uh and she says oh that's great escape you say

go on who are you what's happened here well there's a bit of confusion in that area you see we were sort of coerced here we were gathered here by uh an outside person or persons and we had some plans that we're trying to figure out and we had amnesia we didn't know who we were we're plagued by horrible dreams i don't know we had this horrible rainbow unicorn a horse dream i don't know if you experienced the same thing. Did you have the horse dream by any chance? It turned and its face resembled Julia Roberts. It longed at Julia Roberts' face. It longed at Julia Roberts' face. But with rainbows shooting out of its mouth.

Troy, did I have the dream? You've had several. Every night you go to bed, you have horrible dreams. But you've luckily been able to withstand all of them. And you've never woken up with any bite marks, any claw marks. You do remember a horse dream, but in yours, it was a unicorn. I do remember the rainbow bite part, but my horse was a unicorn. Unicorn.

It's preposterous. They don't exist. It's a dream. She's obviously not out of her mind. We can't use her. Listen, I've been here for, oh, many, many years now, and I've seen nothing like this before. Something truly horrible was happening here. Yes, of that you are correct, and

we have... Zandaloose. I think he has something to do with it. Yes, I agree. We agree. We think that's exactly... That's why we're seeking him out. We think he's up in the tower in the northwest corner

of the compound we're not him but one of his followers but he's nearby and we fear that if we can maybe I don't know, brace this follower get him to answer some questions we might be able to stop these nightmares

the knight suddenly rises and just draws her sword, and it's gleaming and polished, and in perfectly wet stone, she says, My sword is with you. My name is Sir Julie Andrus. That's Andrus.

A-N-D-R-U with an umlaut S. Andrus. Andrus A-N-D-R-U with an umlaut S Andrus Andrus My order is waiting for me At the world wound My lord commander Sent me here and ordered me to heal

And I believe My time has come Shall we? ordered me to heal. And I believe my time has come. Shall we? You can tell me everything you know on the way and we can bypass that roleplay. Great. I like it. Time saving. Yes.

How would anyone feel about a short rest before we all started running off into the darkness? Anyone? No, only me. I'm feeling good. Very good. I'm sure you are, Hoster. I'm revivified by the presence of Sir Julie.

It's nice to be next to a knight. Oh, how grand. Do not be disturbed by my ancient visage. I have been training for this moment for decades. Oh, I'm not. Anyone who puts their body in the line of fire for as long as you have must be skilled indeed to still be alive. Most knights, squires, and otherwise die in their twenties. Impressive.

You must be, you know, 42 or so, I'd imagine. Oh, that's very charming. He's a charmer. I like him. Well, if you are up to it, perhaps we should not waste a moment. We should rush this tower before they know that the ghouls are dead, ghouls are defeated. I'm very slim on spells, but happy to move forward if you are. I defer to your wisdom.

Right, made it this way. And we'll move forward, back to where we were. All right, so you're going to plow ahead here, back into that tower room. I will do a little lift of your characters are you going to bring them yourself great all right actually that was just me i'm the only one who moves my characters during the show oh boy oh boy wow wow metal uh so julia you walk in and you just uh there's a foul smell of blood and feces overpowering the room, and you see the bodies of three dead ghouls.

You may know this room. You haven't spent a lot of time here, but you did spend some time just resting here maybe years ago. You can remember just being placed in front of these windows and you would just rock back and forth for hours and looking out into the waters of Lake and Carthen.

I will admit, my internet fritz for a minute, so did you guys tell me about how you came to the asylum? Because she has been here for years and doesn't recognize you among her patients. What did you guys say on the walk over there? came to the asylum? Because she has been here for years and doesn't recognize you among her patients. No, you can... What do you guys say on the walk over there?

We told her that we were brought here as part of an exchange of sorts. And I think along the way, too, Houser would ask her, you seem to know your name right away. It took us until we found our files to know our names. Do you

remember life outside of these walls? Of course. We were brought here as amnesiacs. That is the reason we were patients. She clearly was not an amnesiac. Is that right? No, I had many other disorders.

And still do. But amnesia was not among them interesting I really can be quite charming when I'm not tormented by extra plainer horror well, take your word for it so I mean if you seem like you know Well, take your word for it.

So, I mean, you seem like you know your way around a fight. Do you have any advice or orders? Well, not knowing what it is we're facing, and how many of them there are, and where they're positioned, and what their assets are, and what our assets are, I'd say, for the time being, get behind me. Fair enough. Well, there was a door to the north that we passed previously. Perhaps we'd check that out.

And if all is well there, we could move to the west, up the stairs. I like this plan, sir. Oh, wait, wait, wait, wait. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. This is a crumbling set of stairs in this room going up. I forgot about that. Right, yeah. It just looks like rubble to me, but now I see it. Okay. Yeah.

I like your plan, sir, Julie. I've been waiting to bravely follow in another warrior's footsteps for years now. Well, it feels like years. Every day is a horror ending with a nightmare. So lead on. It's been five days, Host. Oh, for some reason it feels like 18 months. It does. It does.

It feels longer somehow. When you have stared into the abysses we have, every day feels like an eternity. It's not... Exactly. You get me, Sir Julie. You get me. Yes Julie. You get me. Yes, he certainly won't

put in here for a lack of insight about the human condition. Well, I've had a lot of time to do a lot of self-work. I've had excellent doctors, it's true. Good. Right, well, ahead we go

then, Sir Julie. Off you go alright could I get a couple of hits off that wand first I did get savaged by a couple of ghouls and that has not been addressed did you guys end up figuring out what that stuff you found was in those cages

obviously you found out what the shield was, but there was a chewed-on wand as well, right? I don't know if you revealed that. You told us we found a thing of Mage Hand. That was the elven hand that was shrunken down. Was it chewed-on wand? It was failed on the wand. I'm thinking of side quests.

You guys never found that. We'll roll that next Thursday. Okay. All right. I run a lot of games skid five that's 14 points of healing

over two wands do you need more oh perfect that's good nice okay Sir Julie does a little bit of a

like a lunge stretch in her gotta keep limber and then she will make her way up the stairs Atticus copies her.

It's not that easy. It's actually the lower portion of the stairs have completely collapsed. So you see a flight of stairs overhead that continues going up to what you think is the top of the tower. But it's rickety, and you have to climb to get to it. It looks like it's only about 10 feet away, so if you fall, if you fail by five or more, you're going to take damage. Otherwise, you're looking at a DC 10 climb check.

Okay. Well, that's perfect for me wearing full plate armor. Yes. You want to impress them. This is your first roll. You want to impress them, you know. This is your first roll. You want to really, like, show them what you got. There she goes.

DC10, you say? Yes. She sheathes her greatsword. Can I have a boost by any chance? Oh, sure. Step on me, please. And Halster gets immediately in a supine position

excellent I rolled a 12 and my climb is minus 2 amazing so Julie just like does a pull up on the rickety side she really has been training she's quite spry

who wants to try next DC 10 oh happy to embarrass myself in front of everyone. Let's get her up there. Fall down. That's a three. Three, yeah, that would do a little bit of damage. You take

six points of damage. Oh, for fuck's sake. By the way, I don't know what I was doing with that wand. I don't have a wand. Halster, you have the wand, right? Sure. What kind of answer is that? It's been a while. I think I was keeping it on a sheet with a number of charges left,

so allow me to find that, and I will subtract two from that. We'll just let your rolls go. Okay. Oh, no, no. I'll just let your rolls go. Okay. Oh! Oh, dear! So you go like, I got this, and boom! So sorry, this is... I'm afraid it's not my forte. So, Julie, you don't

happen to have a rope that you can lower down, do you? In fact, they don't let us have ropes in the asylum. Well, the asylum has been run by the patient for quite some time. He doesn't have shoelaces either. All right.

Can I reach down and help pull him up? Can I aid him in a way? Yes, but 10 feet, so it's going to be tough. If I lay down and then reach my arm down. Yeah, I'll do that. Give him a plus two. All right. Another go. Oh, there plus two. Another go.

There we go. Fifteen. Adjusted. She just grabs your little rat claw. He can't believe her strength. It's like, whoa. Throws you halfway across the room. Very impressive. You have been training. Aldo? Right.

Give me a hand if you like. And I also have a minus two to climb. Yeah, man. We are not a climbing party. I rolled a six. Okay. We'll say she gave you the plus two so you won't take damage. You just don't roll lower than that.

Oh, nope. I rolled a four. my god a four total or with the plus two how do they get up to the tower you just fix the steps guys and now you realize that's probably what the ghouls were doing they smell something up there but they couldn't figure out a way to get up they were like licking the air with their forked tongues. You see Aldo struggling. That four with the plus two is a six, so you still don't take damage.

Give him a boost and we'll try again. Yeah, can I aid the climb check just by like being like a knee or like hands? Okay, so I rolled aid. I aid. Okay. All right, natty 19. There it is. You get up there.

Climb checks are fucking annoying, but where you could fail and take a little bit of damage, that might be the difference between life and death. All right, so we'll say he finally gets up there. Doesn't take any damage. Halster, you're the last one. Here we go. Plus two on the roll.

Natural 20. Cutting to the grantee system. All right, you ready to see Wow Let me just really linger on this shot Are you ready to see the coolest I'm just really proud of this map work that I've done here You guys are in that room

and then all of a sudden look at this. Oh! Pretty sneaky, sis. Yeah. Wow, it helps you're so deep in the room already. Good luck, buddy. I'm supposed to be following Sir Julie.

You guys will be over there. You guys will be... This wasn't the plan. Over there, house two will be last. Let's put you in relative order here. All right. Oh, man. A lot going on in this room. Let me throw some of it in there. Whoa. Let me give you the lowdown here and what you see now that you're in there

There are broken windows All around Looking out across A sea of churning Saffron fog Inside the room Itself dusty crates Of all

Sizes crowd the room Toward the Middle back of the room, we'll say, there's a thick cloud of mist just floating in space. That's what I want to do. I want to put that up there. Cloud of mist just floating in space, disconnected from everything else in the room. It's circular, but it's about 25 feet

in diameter. And as you look into it, there are weird shapes shifting all around in it, similar to the shapes you saw outside, but not as large. When you went outside and you were looking out across the island, you saw things, colossal-sized creatures moving in the mist. Here you just see lots of smaller things. Some creatures and some just like silhouettes of objects and whatnot. Otherworldly things shifting around in the mist. And what looks like, in the middle of it, a figure standing there. in the mist, and what looks like, in the middle of it, a

figure standing there with its mouth open. The mists are swirling around it. There it is. What is that? Keep your voice down, woman.

What is that? It's an Oneirian. It is a person, or once was, who's been turned into some sort of gateway. Gateway to another plane. We saw one once, but it was, for lack of a better term, broken. This one seems to be working rather well, I'm afraid.

Are they combative? They are rather unresponsive, but the last one we encountered when we touched it, we were stricken with horrible visions, almost paralyzed with fear if memory serves.

That's what happened, right? We touched it and we had, like, visions. Yeah. That one, in doing some sort of post-combat checks on it, it seemed to be an oneirgen. I think James, or no, at the time you were James, Atticus rolled on it and It seemed to be an oneirgen. I think James, or no, at the time you were James, Atticus rolled on it, and you were like, it's an

oneirgen, but you knew that something was wrong about it. It was malfunctioning. So your interaction with it very well could be different from a fully functioning one, if that's what this is. Are there, I mean, I know it's hard to see through, but

there are no, like, cracks in the wall. Now I'm wondering if, like, there's at least one in the northwestern tower. I'm looking over my own notes, and this one's left alone compared to the others. Like, I'm wondering if, like, all of the fog from the outside is emanating from these Onerogens,

these lieutenants of Zandalu's. Like, is it going out into the outside, or is it just in this room? Yeah, this is the only one besides Eliash Losandra that you've come in contact with, but all the windows are broken in here, and what's emanating out of this creature seems to be, you can't tell if it's going outside

or if the outside is infecting the inside. Got it. I'll put the creature on there, too. You say we must disrupt this one connection to Monsieur Zanderlis, yes? Yes, I suppose so. I was

rather hoping to get it to, I don't know, speak. Tell us something. Something we could use against Andalus. I'm afraid I don't know how to proceed. Is there any role that I can do here? I mean, do I know all that I'm going to know about this situation, about Onerogens? Or is there a knowledge planes role or a knowledge arcana roll about breaking the connection or anything like that? You can roll a

fresh planes roll. Alright, I'll try a fresh planes roll. Sir Julie will as well. That is a 20. 23 for Sir Julie. Oh, right. She's a world wound veteran. She's going to know a thing or two about

these types of creatures. They're all very different. They all have different, differing levels of awareness to what's happening to them. Because they're, in many cases,

there was some sort of ritual that created them. And depending on what that ritual entailed, the creature is affected differently. So you don't quite know. When you first met Dr. Ren, he was like,

maybe you can go and talk to it. He's never seen one. And find out what the mists are, and how to get to Xandalus. Now that you're here, you just see this figure standing there. From time to time, the mist will swirl. It looks like its mouth's open.

Like there's, you don't know if there's any there there. Can I do a perception check on the rest of the room? Just without going deeper, just like glancing. Standing right where you are, yeah. Yeah, just sort of like trying to see if there's

anything else in here. 22. No, that's a nine. Niner. Niner. 16. 22 for Sir Jules. 22 for Sir Jules.

Um. You just see medical equipment laying around that looks very outdated like you're a little bit older and you know i don't know what level your faculties are at but you see stuff that you would just know like they don't use that stuff anymore does that have any relation we learned that in in another bit of exposition dump that they used to treat people without magic here or with that like they used to have different treatment methods in the past at the asylum does this look like the old ways they used to do it before the the leadership took over it's possible you do see strange images on the wall

that look like medical charts towards the back of the room, but they're all handwritten, and you can't quite see them for where you are, but they would probably glean more information as well. And honestly, Joe and Matthew, with your knowledge planes, you know that if you had a chance

to really examine this creature up close and roll another knowledge plane after you had a chance to really examine this creature up close and roll another knowledge planes after, like, get a tactile feel on it, then you might be able to really figure out what happened here. But from afar, just trying to figure out the basic idea of an onerogen, they're also different. Right.

It seems horribly dangerous, though, so, Julie, um... What is the effect of this yellow gas? Have you experienced it? Yes. Well... All I know is that they're all different. They all operate rather differently. I don't know if it's going to cause us to have visions or what.

Perhaps we won't know until we try. Well, as I am immune to fear, follow me. Oh, I'm very jealous. Sir Julie will take a step forward towards the urnirogen, towards the cloud. Yeah, and Atticus is going to start moving too, but before he does, he's going to... He's going to turn to Aldo

and just sort of with just a slight twinge of fear in his eyes well I am not immune to fear and I'm rather afraid of what happens when we go in there so do your best to, you know, if

it all goes poorly, blow it up. And he reaches out and touches Aldo and casts Fox's Cunning on Aldo, which gives you a plus four enhancement to Intelligence. Hell fuck yeah. And then he rushes into the cloud. Because you've only got three minutes. Okay.

because you've only got three minutes. Okay. Sir Julian Atticus, rush into the cloud after you touch Aldo. Halster, what about you? Halster will join them if he's following Sir Julian. I mean, he's brave enough seeing a more experienced warrior going first. Otherwise, he'd be outside. Atticus, you kind of rush forward. And as you get where Sir Julie and where House,

well, where House was a second ago, but where Sir Julie is, think of it as like concealment. She's 10 feet away from this thing. That's just concealment. When you are, now you get a much better, that's like total concealment. Now you have basically concealment where you

are. But as you step close to it, right next to it, something strange begins to happen. And it turns its attention at you. Roll for initiative. Oh no! What's with the good sound? Roll for initiative. Oh, no. Shag off. Gong, gong, gong, gong, goo.

That's a good sound. Shag off. Beep, boop, boo. Shag off. Boop, dee, boo. I found my touring kit of dye. Oh. Like I travel with, and I always keep them separate from the other ones.

And it has my old, original Jade Regent dye, because I love bringing it from city to city. So tonight I'm using that. Remember the Jade Regent minis we would use? We always had that one box of minis that got tossed around. We'd always have the same little pawns. You guys had Hero Forge minis for those characters. We did have Hero Forge. Yeah, that's right.

I think Hero Forge was around for like a week and we had bought eight to ten different minis. Did you get any of the brass ones? really sink a good $300 into one? We were all poor. That's right. We were all so poor. I had to save up for weeks to buy that one plastic one that broke a week later. We are very fragile.

Let's talk a niche before I talk about what's going to happen to Atticus Before everything Atticus, what did you roll for Anish? I rolled a 19 19 for Atticus Oh lady is no longer a part of the party So I'll add Sir Julie J-O-O-L-E-E J-O-O-L-E-E

What did you get, bud? 17 Not too shab-a-roo Aldo 23 Ooh, nice Halster 17

Sir Julia Halster, who's higher? Plus one for me Plus three for me Ooh, doggy. Okay. Here's what happens that kicks this all off. As Atticus gets right next to it, it turns its attention. But the mist is so thick right next to it that you start to feel a little faint.

Roll a will save. Could I ask ask a question? Sure. Is this will save Confusion, fear, insanity, or madness? Confusion, fear, insanity, or madness?

Confusion, fear, insanity, or madness. Confusion, fear, insanity, or madness. It's more like a sleep effect. I don't think sleep effect is the same as confusion. So I'm going to say no. All right, we'll save. Coming in hot. This is'm going to say no. All right, we'll save. Coming in hot. This is tough. Ooh, 19.

Huge. Oh, Natty, 16. Oh, baby. As these tendrils of yellow fog surrounding it start to enter into your body, clawing at your nostrils and your ears, you're able to withstand whatever it was trying to do. Take it off.

Stay in the fight. Let's get into round one. Aldo, you're up. Okay. Aldo is going to dart across to the other side of the room. And he's going to say, Erechus, heads up! And he's going to take his bomb, his little potion.

Nice! Now, you can range when a creature has total concealment, right? Total concealment or concealment? So let me show you. I want to make sure you guys can see. You can always throw at a square. All right, so let me put the aura around it. Can you guys see

the yellow aura circling it? Yes. Alright, so yeah, 50% missed chance. Okay. Alright, so he's going to throw at that square. Ugh. And a hit. And makes the goal.

63. Nice. 63. Huge, dude. And which square was it again? I'm sorry. It's her square that she's on. Which?

Well, no, that's. You'd have to hit it, right? Right. Well, that's what I'm doing. Okay. So what did you roll to hit it, right? Right. Well, that's what I'm doing. Okay. So what did you roll to hit, then? That was a 14 against touch. 14 against touch.

That is a hit. And you pass the concealment. So, yeah. Good to go. Atticus, get ready for a reflex save. What is the damage in the meantime? That's 11 points of fire damage. Huge.

Pretty sure. Nice. And you upped that for the enhancement intel right beautiful but this is also going to hurt me too if I don't pass this alright reflex save Atticus 16 just missed it

if you had to give me fox's cunning you would have made it that's 9 points of fire damage to you. Oh, dude. I'm almost done. You've got to get out. Well, I fell. I fell from that stupid thing.

We didn't use the wand as soon as you got up? Well, I wanted to, but I didn't know that we were just in a room with the thing. Whatever. We could have. Just trying to keep the show moving. Here's something interesting about this uh i'm not going to retcon this because i uh i'm reading it now uh creatures farther away have total concealment and the attacker cannot use sight to locate the target uh

very interesting into the cloud though right but he wouldn't be able to pinpoint his square. So I'm going to let that damage count, but Aldo won't be able to do that again without randomly hoping that it hits on its square. Moving right along, it is Atticus's turn. Atticus, you're right next to this thing. You saved against whatever this mist was that was trying to pull you down into the Dreamlands. What do you want to do?

Can I roll another knowledge plane to see if I can get any more information from being this close to it? Sure. I mean, you said that we needed to get closer. Right, right, right. I'm talking about being able to touch the body, but go for it.

Okay. Well, that's a 16 um and then geez man i don't know uh i will just i will just cast mirror image on myself okay just in case so how many jes? Or how many Atticus's? How many Atticae? Let's see. Come on, buddy. Come on, buddy. Attica? Three Atticus's.

Three more Atticus's. Three more. Two, three. There they are. Nice. I like it. Great. Okay.

So they all pick up and you said it's 16. So you're a lot closer now. You know that they are immune to mind affecting effects that's something that's common of all of them thank god this is a lady's not here right yeah it is so frustrated i know yeah it is surrounded in a uh in in something called obscog, which is similar to Obscuring Mist, but acts a little bit differently. It moves with it. It fills the area 10 feet around it in all directions. Five feet away, you have concealment, 20% mischance. Farther away, 50% mischance, but they can't be targeted.

You can't use sight to locate the target, so you could with scent. And the target itself, or the creature itself, is impeded in the same way by the fog. They're not immune to it, but they do have blind fights, so if they fail on attacks, they get that second chance

if they fail on the concealment. Make sense? And you do know, and you remember from before, that this creature is somehow a planar split. It is torn between the material plane and another plane. You would think that this one is somehow connected to the dreamlands, whereas other Onerogens could be like

between the material plane and the shadow plane, between the material plane and the plane of death. I don't know what the other planes are, but this one has got to be something to do with the dreamlands um that is atticus's turn it is now hauster's turn uh hauster will uh first uh reach inside himself and realize there's another warrior present. He doesn't have to be at the front line, so he's going to cast Bless as his standard action. Everyone gets a plus one bonus

to attack and hit and damage. Awesome. And then Halster wants to... A weapon damage too, you're right. Yeah, it's weapon damage as well. So Halster wants to impress Sir Julie at this point, so he runs in, arms blazing,

Have at thee! and goes immediately next to Atticus in order to be able to heal him next round, actually, in addition to being able to strike this thing if need be next round. Roll a will save. Oh no, Halster, don't go to sleep I could feel it tingling at the edges of my mind let's see the cam

okay wait what was that roll I rolled three times natural one oh no natural one wait is this a fear effect uh no okay Control one. Wait. That's granted death. Is this a fear effect?

Uh, no. Okay. Halster walks up into the mist, gets right next to the creature. Oh, no. And the mist enters him, and he crumbles to the floor and falls asleep. I thought it would have been a mid-move, though. Further out in the radius, Croy. This is a real... I'm really lingering on this one

for you joe that's just so you can really enjoy that uh yeah no it's the second you got right next to it something about yeah because it takes that long to breathe i got you yeah i'll tell you after the fight why you have to be right next to her for that to happen. Got it. But yeah, you crumble to the floor and fall asleep. You can be woken up as a standard act or move. What do you think? Is that a move action to wake somebody up or standard? I'll look it up.

I think that it's, I don't know. I'll look it up. Okay. But you'll also get a new will save every round. Oh, okay. Unless it just decides to do a coup de grace on you. Let's see whose turn it is. It is Sir Julie's turn. All of you rolled higher

than the Oneirijan. Oh wow. So Joe is it a standard? Standard. Standard action. Sir Julie will nudge Halster with her gleaming foot and say,

you charming young man, this is no time to be sleeping. Get up and join us. She will rouse him. She will rouse him. So you're prone but awake. And then Sir Julia will slide to her left and take a five foot step.

I'm assuming I will have to roll a will save. Will save. 23. Ooh. 22. 22. Oh, Julie. Withstanding the pain.

It is its turn, and it's just... The whole time, this yellow mist spewing out of its mouth and it just lifts its arms up and it's like and goes to slam Halster and Sir Julie let's start with Halster that is going to be a miss with a 15

and let's see what Sir Julie's AC is I doubt a 14 is going to hit. Nice. So slam, slam, and does not hit. And that doesn't hit your prone AC, obviously, right, Halster? No, my prone AC is 16. Okay.

Ooh, it's close. I actually had a shot of hitting you. And then in terms of movement, no, you know what, it's going to stay right there. It feels pretty, pretty good right where it is. It is top of the new round, and it's Aldo's turn. We'll say in terms of how it works out, Aldo,

like you caught a beat on it as the mists were parting, but now that all your friends are there, you can't tell if it's your friend or that creature up ahead in this thick thick yellow fog right okay um wow yeah i really i don't want to i want to throw a bomb in there i could hit any one of you directly so although it's just gonna get over into the northwestern corner of the room just on the edge of the fog and just kind of wait for an opening.

Just pray. Pray. Yeah, it's messy in there. That's a lot of fog, and you probably were able to see a body collapse to the ground. You're like, there's no way. It could be killed already. Maybe it just fell asleep. You don't want to go in there.

He's going to try to blow the fog away. It parts, and then it fills up again. But it does seem to actually do something as you blow into it. It is Atticus's turn. There's four of you. Yes, four of me. Four of me. Why not take four of me?

Okay, Atticus. Four of me Why not take four of me Okay Atticus Atticus will take A five foot step back Okay And I'm just curious about how this would Work with

I mean I know where the Creature is So but I don't have line of sight, right? Fuck, man. Every one of these combats is so riddled with the inability to do the things you want to do. I know, it's true. Yeah, it's every single one of them. Everything that we're good at, we can't do it because of the circumstances of whatever we're fighting.

Yeah. we can't do it because of the circumstances of whatever we're fighting I'm going to cast mage armor on myself mage armor yeah I'm going to keep my options I've got one like wild spell that I could cast and I just don't know what it should be if I can't see the damn thing, and if I have to be next to it and take an A-O-O,

you know what I mean? It's such a brutal freaking situation. Does magic missile require... I suppose you'd have to see it. Yeah, it's just line of sight, I think. So I just don't know what to do. Yeah, it never misses, but if you can't see it, you can't shoot it.

Alright. I'll see what the fighters do and then just wait to make that desperate action. Here's the thing. It's Halster's turn. Now, Halster, where Atticus and Sir Julie passed, they're immune to the effects of this for 24 hours. Yeah. You are not. So in addition to needing to roll another will save right now, you also will not receive natural healing

from resting for the next 24 hours from this mist that has entered your body. But will you fall asleep again? Roll me a will save! Uh, I think I will. Uh, unless that's cracked. Oh, no. No, it's flat. Uh, nine. Oh! You're actually already asleep. You're just like, I think I will unless that's correct no it's flat nine

you're actually you're already asleep you're just like I'm gonna go goes right asleep again I mean you are really embarrassing

yourself in front of Sir Julie yeah I know I know who the weak link is driving me crazy just wish we had a hero up front

that's all I'm saying oh we do old halster snooze button price sir julie this is uh just one more minute guys i am the greatest abuser of the snooze button button to ever live it drives my wife insane so julie you're up you know you've been in a lot of battles i don't know how good your memory is, but you know Halster is open to being one-shotted right now. You just met him. Do you care about him? You're up. Sir Julie...

Oh, God, yeah. He could be Kudagras, couldn't he? And you know what that feels like. It's tough. You want to show off your new powers? It's just one more respensive Gr off your new powers? This is one more Raspensive Grants character? Yeah, but the, so the Oneergen's

going to go after me, right? So, yeah. All right. I will rouse Halster. She's like, young man, wake up, you fool! I told you,

this is no time for napping. And then she will slide to, you know, slide up again to try to get around this thing and put herself And then she will Slide To you know slide up again Try to get around this thing Put herself in a better strategic position Okay

It just Five foot steps Between the two of you And strike at Halster Strike at Jules Again let me get my white cat's eye here Ooh Halster. Strike at Jules. Again, let me get my white cat's eye here. Ooh, Halster, 23. That's a hit.

Not a lot. Four points of damage. And then one at Sir Jules. Big old miss. It's just kind of crawling about the room. Still emanating that loud sound as it creeps about. You know what? I haven't been rolling concealment, so let me roll that right now for you at least, Halster.

I don't think I hit you guys last time, so. Yep. All right. Ooh, I failed, but I have blind fight, so I get to try again, and I made it on that one. I rolled a six and then a 60. So she does hit you. A factor of 10. I keep saying she.

It's a he. And it is top of the new round. Aldo's turn. Aldo, you see the fog, the mist is getting closer to you as this thing is inching forward. All right. Aldo is going to step backwards,

kind of stumbling back out of the fog and that's pretty much it. Okay. Oh, I see. It didn't move right next to Aldo, and he didn't. Okay. That makes sense, what happened to me. Yep.

It all adds up. Atticus, you're up. Atticus is going to move back and around about 15 feet. And then, well, just 10 feet actually from there. And he's going to fire into the square where this creature is. Okay. You can't see it. Doesn't matter. I can fire into the square and get a 50% mischance.

Right? Okay. Didn't I just tell Aldo he can't do that? Well, I mean, he's never seen it. I just figured that I was watching it, saw the mist move, know where it is. Creatures farther away have total concealment, 50% mischance, and the attacker cannot use sight to locate the target. So it's a 50% mischance and the attacker cannot use sight To locate the target So it's a 50% mischance but you can't use sight

So it's a random dice roll To see if you even hit that square Same rules apply to you and Aldo Instead of this made up rule of But I saw it I mean alright But the rule is you can pick a square And attack it

It's not a random square You can pick a square and attack it. It's not a random square. You can pick a square and attack it. Now, you could say that he has no idea what square to attack, but I disagree with that, but I see where you're coming from. Yeah, I mean, that's what makes this... You don't randomly roll for a square. That's not a rule. Right.

You know what I'm saying? Yeah, I know what you're saying. It's just this kind of gray area of where you can't use sight to locate the target. So why wouldn't you just pick the square that the target's in? Do you know what I mean? What you're saying makes sense, but it doesn't help the added bonus of this rule that says you can't use sight to locate the target. Well, of course you're going to pick the square it's in. Well, I mean, Troy, is the middle ground that would make sense and please both parties to make it a 70% miss chance?

Like he moved. He's not quite where he was. That way Joe still can take the shot at the square. There's no random square to hit. But you're being more punitive as to the concealment. Yeah. I mean, look, at the end of the day, I'm trying to do something. Right.

Because otherwise I have to provoke. I have no way to attack it without provoking. So I'll just gladly not do anything if I can't see it ever. But it looks like this emanation is never going to change. What are you trying to do? Tell me what you're trying to do, and I'll let you know. I'm trying to shoot a crossbow bolt at it. Shoot a crossbow bolt?

And I felt like it was reasonable that it's 10 feet away that I could have some guess of where it was based on having just stepped away from it that was my all right I understand what you're saying I was giving you grief for that but you whereas you stepped into the fog and stepped out you can locate it whereas Aldo can't hasn't been able to locate it as of yet

yeah I haven't seen it at all he has at least seen it so we could make a better guess than I could. 50% mischance, then. Okay, so that would be a 14 to hit. That's a hit. Okay, so then, all right, great. Then I'll roll the concealment.

53! Oh, nice. 53, and so he does Three points of damage With a crossbow bolt Yeah Alright Alright Not bad

Not bad at all I think I Aldo I think I hit it Did you? Yes It's right over Right over

There Somewhere Oh Do you know Tell me where it is If you see it Cause I'll I'll hit it too

Possibly Uh Halster Big will save here man You know, tell me where it is if you see it, because I'll hit it too, possibly. Halster, big will save here, man. You're cramping Sir Julie's style. I know. I hate to cramp such a well-established knight's style. Here it comes. Once you pass, you're a mute.

Natural one again. Oh, my God. Jesus. Look what happened when the camera came out. You know what? I gotta say, I am the first person that will be a proponent of the granti theft device. I mean, I will go out there and publicly say. Again, I think all of you are morons that don't understand random chance in the fucking slightest, which is incredible for two people that enjoy gambling.

It's incredible that you don't understand random chance. What the fucking ever. You're asleep. You've been asleep this whole game. Sir Julie, I'm assuming you kick him. Kick him right in the junk. Hey, I said wake up. Yep.

Sir Julie will kick him in the junk. Hey! I said wake up! Yep. Sir Julie will kick him in the junk and wake him up. You're gonna fight. Hal, so you feel a real heavy metal boot without shoelaces

land right in your crotch. Oh, God! And it's... And then can I stand on this square? Sure. Okay, she'll take a five-foot step to flank the Onirigen with Halster.

Nice. Okay, and it will attempt to attack you guys as well. Here comes the hit on Halster. Miss, and then Ser Jules, another miss. Nice. So it's not very weak. It's this sleep effect that could be very, very dangerous. Just want to see if there's anything else yeah okay let's move right along then to uh aldo aldo it's it's uh still standing

right there you saw atticus shoot into it uh what do you want to do if anything uh he's going to take another five foot step to give himself a little more room to maneuver. Still can't see it. So he's still, he's holding his bomb. He's waiting. Maybe a sudden gust of wind will come through and give him a chance to throw it. But so far, no. It's so tricky because if he goes in and fails the will save, now Atticus has to use his turn.

And then Sir Julius, it's only a matter of time before. There is a theme in between the paralysis that could happen with all the characters the unconsciousness that happens with these fights all of these fights kind of are just like terrible in terms of what happens if you fail yeah yeah yeah but it is it's like all the stuff the motif about dreaming and sleep and it's kind of all knits together pretty as frustrating as frustrating as it is just to be helpless like that in battle laying there is uh is the most brutal uh atticus you're up you did strike true uh but you're gonna need you're gonna

need a big move here yeah okay i'm gonna you know what you inspired me grant you inspired me with the talk about how much i love gambling and i do so here we go i just had an idea that's such a great outfit for you to talk about how would you love you look like you look like an out-of-work riverboat like a blackjack table dealer all right here we go i can. Here we go. I can't. Here we go. Atticus goes through the mist. All right. Into it.

Sir Julie clearly isn't getting the job done. We should have taken the orderly. He steps up. The orderly probably wouldn't have woken Alistair. That's actually accurate. Handicapped by being a good parent. That's true. He's not battle-hardened. And actually, I would argue that with the way that this thing's attacks have been thus far,

tactically, it's been very smart to just keep waking him up. You know what I mean? You know that he can eventually save on it, and it's better to have somebody else in the combat. All right. I'm going to step up and try something crazy. I'm going to open up my arcane bonded object. Which I now have.

And I'm going to use it to cast Bone Shaker on this thing. And I'm going to take the A-O-O, hoping that A, you might just miss and B, if you hit, you hit an image and then I get it off. If I cast defensively, I could just

lose the spell and I don't want to lose it. So I'm going to just take the risk on you hitting an image. Alright, let's see. 17 to hit. Oh my god,, my God. Oh, my God. 18 AC.

Oh, I won't even roll the mischance. With mage armor, 18 AC. I was mocking you in my head when you cast mage armor, and look at what a big save that was in the end. Huge, huge. Okay. So he steps up and he gets off Bone Shaker. So I need you to roll a Fortitude save.

All right. Fortitude save. Right down the pipe here. 15? 15 is a fail, good buddy. Failure! So what do you do? So first of all, you're going to Oh! Oh! You're gonna take 15

points of bone damage. Oh! 4d6 bone damage. And then I am going to move you 5 feet. And I want you to move Caddy Corner

back away from me so that you're just next to Sir Julie is the only one you're next to. No, no, no. No, no, no, no. Yes. There we go. Right here?

Right there, right? Back of the room right next to Sir Julie. No! And I hope that I did that by the book. I think I did. Yeah, you can move,

you move it five feet in any direction. Yes. Yeah. All right. Amazing. Huge. You can actually, it yeah you can move you move it five feet in any direction yes yeah uh all right amazing the last spell that i have besides cantrip that's awesome dude halster you are out you're awake and laying on the ground is it my turn yeah okay well Halster

will stand up as a move action and seeing maybe some cuts and scrapes on Atticus will use both a instance of fervor to heal him 1d6 healing points but also to increase that healing by 50%.

So he gets healed for four points of healing. Thank you, Helster. Stay in the fight. You're doing well. I'll try. Sir Julie, what do you got? Come on, Sir Julie. Unleash hell.

Sir Julie is going to take a swing with her gleaming greatsword. Power attack. Let's see what happens. Yeah, why not? Come on, Sir Julie. Crack die. Crack die. Okay, 23 to hit.

23 is a hit. Go, go, go, go. Roll the miss chance 20% where you're right next to it. Oh my god. Come on, Sir Julie. Come on. 40. You're alright. Roll for damage. This is going to be so much damage.

It's actually not that much damage. I didn't roll great. It's 11 points of damage. That's good. It's enough not that much damage I didn't roll great It's 11 points of damage That's good It's enough to kill it Welcome to the team Sir Julie Welcome to the squad Oh man

Phenomenal You did it Now normally this would be the time When I would do the intermission, but Joe, you said 8 o'clock is your push to 2000, so before I do the intermission, I'm going to give it another five minutes or so to see who wins the gentleman's bet between us.

Yeah, I think you pulled this one out. I don't know, we're at 1100 right now. Let's do a little aftermath of the fight. Call all your friends and tell them just open up a browser window and go to twitch.tv slash TheGlassCanon. Just text them.

I'll do an intermission in five and a half minutes. Can we get that person who hacked everyone's Twitter accounts to get Bitcoin donations to do that again but just for our Twitch stream? Yeah, so I did I put up a facebook post today just like friends and family uh just being like hey uh if you could just click on this link at eight o'clock for five minutes it would really help me out uh and i don't know if anybody will do it but i didn't think about it at the time

but as i was putting you know the bottom layer of eyeliner on i was like i just told all of my friends and family to tune in to something where i'm just like wearing makeup and look like a complete fool they're gonna be like oh well i haven't seen joe since high school i see that he's a complete weirdo now your high school Philly friends. All my Philly buddies, yeah. Oh, I see he's starring in a stage production of Victor Victoria. How nice for him. Victor Victoria featuring Julie Andrews.

Yes, correct. Well, to get back to it for a moment, it left us no choice. I thought that it was going to be something we could speak to or something. But I guess not. I understand that we couldn't really trust Dr. Ren Elborn's medical qualifications, considering he's an actor very well esteemed in his field, not a doctor. But he said that we might be able to get more information out of this thing. Yeah, that's what I thought too.

Well, here's what I thought, too. Well, here's something interesting that happens. As Sir Julie lands, a killing blow, as it were, on this onerogen, this functioning onerogen, it falls to the ground, and the mists spewing from it begin to slow and eventually cease. from it begin to slow and eventually cease. And you see all the broken windows surrounding the tower here. The mists outside

start to thin. Oh! The thing that was causing all of it? You called it and Trey didn't even give it to you! Bottlecaps! Yeah! The reason I thought it would be that way is because he said there were multiple of them stationed. And this one was in a Northwest tower.

And then I thought about how that would work and how you would create an emanation like that. And I imagine there are more, though, is my problem. Well, this is the thing. While the surrounding region, every second that passes by right here, like right outside the window, it looks like it's really clearing up. But you see in the distance, it's still awash with this deadly fog. But killing this one was enough to clear this area here. So, yeah, you intuit that, like, if there are more of them and we get rid of them, the fog might be gone

and there's a way out all of us except for Sir Julie will be dead by the time that happens because she is the only character built to live right by the way Halster I forgot to tell you you know just standing around Sir Julie you feel a little

less afraid because I have an aura of courage. Really? Oh, cool. Yeah, you do. That's actually, it's like kind of getting a little buzz off of your aura, like he's talking a little bit more, he's more excited. I like that. I also like that you forgot about that ability, just like the scroll of paralysis,

Matthew. I ask every time, is this a fear effect? Because it only applies to fear effects. And then you would say you'd give it to everyone else. This is a character built for book one that came in at the penultimate session.

Can we search the body? Is there anything else of interest on it? Yeah, so there's no, there's nothing really interesting on it. The only thing you notice that now that it's not spewing fog out with this comically large mouth, it looks like just a person that had something done to it. Roll another planes or a heal check now that you can actually physically examine the body. Both are relevant because clearly this was part of a planar rift.

Natural 20, planes 28. My first natty 20 of the marathon. 17 heel, if that adds anything. All right, so both of you working together can see that whatever happened to this person, now that it's laying on the ground dead, all of its organs were removed, ripped away. But there's no blood or anything. Like, perhaps they were consumed by this force that is now no longer controlling it. That's kind of what you get medical-wise, Halster.

And then as Atticus focuses more on the planar connection, you can tell that the corpse was exposed to extraplanar energies, and the fog came from that other realm. It's almost like the person had a portal inside of them. So perhaps the portal that was created between this realm and perhaps the dreamlands ate away at its very viscera. Wow. Question. I was just struck by how descriptive your dream was last night about the horse with a

rainbow coming out over the human face and i thought about this person's mouth and i saw the drawing someone did uh of the horse it was great yeah angelique's drawing was amazing um so i was just thinking about that and you just described the wide open mouth spewing um does this face look like the horses the one that was on the horse? It doesn't. Okay. It doesn't. This is a man. Who knows? Maybe it was a patient here. Maybe it was a doctor.

Something was done to it. The face that you saw on the horse was elongated, but it was a man as well. That we'd be able to identify if we saw it, you think? Oh, yeah. Or was it?

Even though it was comically enlarged, if you were to find that man somewhere in the asylum, and you have not seen him and this man you have no recollection of, there are strange drawings on the wall. Combing over this entire room. Is there anything else? Looking at every nook and cranny. Taking our time. Guess we'll have to find out after the intermission.

Oh no! Oh. 13-24. 13-24. So not close at all. Hey, but you know what? We've still got over two hours of show left. 1324. 1324. So not close at all. So not close. Hey, but you know what?

We've still got over two hours of show left. Stick around. The march to 2000 doesn't end just because we didn't hit it by eight. Maybe some people just ate some pizza and fell asleep. We're going all night. At least I tried. God damn it. At least I did that.

Welcome back everybody To the second day Of our strange aeons marathon Not unlike Mrs. O'Lady last night Unfortunately Matthew has also died Oh wait no he's alive There he is There he is

Oh wow He's gonna be so mad You guys couldn't wait One more minute I gotta go He doesn't know that we already added Another three minutes for him There he is. Oh, wow. He's going to be so mad. You guys can wait one more minute. I got to go. He doesn't know that we already added another three minutes for him. Matthew, we're live right now. We're live.

How dare you? How dare you be late? The people, we almost had 2,000, and they said, Matthew's dead or not here. I'm leaving. Why didn't you text me? I don't know your number. Amazing. We've never spoken outside of recording.

Will you check it on your lasagna? Make sure it's all ready to go. I actually ate lasagna during the break. I was in here. I came in to grab my water cup, like not 30 seconds ago. My water cup. And you put your headphones on? Why didn't you wave?

I looked on the tail and Grant wasn't there. I was like, okay, I got another minute. Well, now we just look like a bunch of rookies. No, I'm glad you're back. You know what? I was going to take the opportunity of the intermission to change the color of my background, and I'll do it now. We did that. we did that by showing up five minutes before the intermission ended well i had to eat dinner all right all right if you want my a game i had to be i had

to have some food in my system i'm very food motivated as you all know this is what happens when we travel with matthew it's like when are we gonna when are we gonna eat dinner are we yeah what's the dinner what time is dinner you guys want to get some lunch i'm on team capitacazo with that one i was like i well i will admit that i do do that normally but around you four i do it especially because you will go without meals and i just will i just like and then you get really angry and it's really a meal to get yeah beer is a meal i'm just gonna i'm going to choose my colors here. Tell that to the Trappist monks.

We're going to hop back in to the second half of day two in just a second. We wanted to take this time, as we did yesterday right after the intermission, to extrapolate on some of these goals we mentioned yesterday. You know, it's funny. We put the goals up, but then we offered this annual membership thing. So we're going to get a real nice month this month from Patreon, thanks to so many people that have switched to annual. And I can't tell you how much that means to us.

That is going to be incredibly helpful to get us through the end of the year. much that means to us that is going to be incredibly helpful to get us through the end of the year. But the actual reaching of these step goals up to 75,000 and beyond, it will plateau a little bit because when you switch to annual, it doesn't move the number up higher. If anything, it goes down like a tiny bit, which is fine. But anyways, we do have a lot of exciting goals that we put in on the way to 75. And then we've talked about 75 and beyond. So we want to go into a little more detail about what those are right now. Obviously, yesterday, we talked about movie time with Skid. We talked about Cannon Fodder going to audio. And we talked about New Game Who Dis going live with guest stars at $74,000. Your favorite show from the summer,

New Game Who Dis, and the favorite game we played from at Delta Green will get its own show. It will move to a seasonal operation thing. You know how, and people are wondering, it's going to be every week?

Delta Green's going to be every week? No, it's not going to be every week. It's going to get its own show that'll be similar to what we did this time right joe like we did a 10 episode uh look for 10 episode seasons i think that that's pretty in eight or maybe we'll make it britishy and do six two hour episodes and yeah six and a christmas special dude i love i love those bbc dramas it's like six two hour movies and you got the whole season wrapped up no uh i'm i'm really excited for this operations are so they're so different they're so varying they could be short they could be long there's there's a lot of uh flexibility there and opportunity and man we're just excited to to do that so hopefully you guys can get us there,

and we will obviously carve out the time to make it happen. Just really excited about Delta Green. Oh, and that is going to be another thing that is going to just, how can I put it, just sweeten that $10 premium audio tier. Because it is a $10 premium show, is it not? The Delta Green show, is that? No, I think it's 5 and New Game Who Dis live. That's right, you're right, you're right.

Delta Green is 5, New Game Who Dis, which is free to watch. Free to watch on Twitch. The audio is premium. Premium audio, yeah. In order for that show to continue on, especially with bringing in new guest stars, we've got to move that to premium audio. But Delta Green, it's got to stay at five.

After that, obviously, is the big one that we've known about for a while, Glass Cannon Con. We have been acting as if for a while in preparation for this, because even though we haven't hit that milestone yet, like this takes years of prep. We haven't hit that milestone yet. Like, this takes years of prep. Now, I would love to give a lot more information because we are a lot deeper into the discussions. God sakes. What was that? I was questioning whether or not I should add that to the main master mix

and then Joe proved me a fool again. So, great job. Viewing Syrinscape for the time being. I mean, it's unbelievable that it's even a function. It's astounding to me. Single keystroke nonsense. Anyway, sorry. I don't even know what I was talking about.

I don't know either. Glass Cannon Con. I was going to say, we're deep into the planning of this as if it's going to happen, I don't know either. But obviously, the world is in flux right now. We're going to need a lot to happen for this convention to occur. But assuming we return to normal at some point in the near future, we are aiming to put on this convention in the spring of 2022, the first Glass Cannon Con. first uh glass cannon con so the goal would be to make announcements on that hopefully uh by the end of the year to possibly even have tickets on sale uh more than a year in advance at least early in 2021 have tickets on sale and yeah because we want it to be the single largest gathering of the nash and more we don't want to just have it be the nation. We want more people to discover what it is we do. And as more details come out about the con, you'll see how that's going to manifest. But giving people a long time to purchase tickets and purchase flights and whatnot and get everything set up,

we want to make sure everyone has a chance to do that so that if you have a year to set that time aside and make sure you come out to what is going to be one hell of a fun weekend. Yeah, and I think, you know, people have to realize that it's so, you can't put on, I say can't, what we want to do, you can't do, it's bigger than a, way, way, way bigger than a wedding. And you got to do a wedding a year in advance. So it's like, you can't just do a con nine way, way bigger than a wedding. And you got to do a wedding a year in advance. So it's like, you can't just do a con nine months after you hit 75,000.

And so the idea is let's get working on it. Now we've talked to multiple venues. We're really narrowing it down now. And we have a professional working on it, which is not, not one of us. So obviously we're involved in every aspect of it, but we have somebody that is a event planning pro working on it,

and that's what you guys help us to be able to do. So it's going to be pro as shit. I want to say more. You know how badly I want to say what I want to say, and I can't say it. I'm just looking at you. I want to mute your mic. I know, because I'm ready to just even say too much by what I want to say.

But I'm not going to say it. All I will say is when we can make more announcements about this, it is so fucking awesome. And I can't wait to share this information if we're able to make this happen. It is going to be the be all end all. And I can't wait to share more. But get excited for that once we get to 75. And we'll be there. We might be there by the end of the year. Maybe by the end of end all. And I can't, I can't wait to share more, but get excited for that. Once we get to 75 and we'll be there, might be there by the end of the year,

maybe by the end of the weekend, if we get a bunch of new fans. But yeah, that is going to be awesome. A couple more things and we'll jump back in. I lost my little cheat sheet here. Oh, the 5e show.

We talked about this yesterday. Very briefly. We said about this yesterday very briefly. We said at $80,000 we will do a Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition show and got no negative comments about that whatsoever, which was really unlike

the people that comment on subreddits and discords. I thought that was really cool of everyone to just be really level-headed with an announcement that we were excited about. Open-minded. Yeah, open-minded is really the word, Skid. Nailed it.

This is another thing we're not going to really go too much into detail about, but if you read the Patreon site and the way the goal is written, it spells it out exactly what it's going to be. And the main purpose of the show, it's going to be one season of the show to start. And then if like these other things we were talking about earlier, if it does well, we'll do more seasons is is a chance to get new voices involved with the Glass Cannon Network, a show that doesn't have us on it, that we produce. One of the big things we want to do as we grow this network is include shows that we're not on.

We simply can't be on every single show. And shouldn't be. And shouldn't be. We think this is a great opportunity to, one, add a 5E show, which is wildly popular into the mix have it be played by 5e players and uh produce it in the glass cannon style but not be uh on it not be wedded to performing on it to kind of teach other people the glass cannon way and then produce something under our umbrella yes i mean finding you, finding, you know, just, I don't know,

finding the chemistry that works in the Glass Cannon way and also, you know, just producing it in our style, you know, editing it our way, but not having to perform it. You know what I mean? And like I said, we shouldn't be doing every show. There should be that opportunity to have other people do it. And that's why it's an $80,000 goal because from start to finish,

it is all going to be paid for. You know what I mean? We're paying everybody to do this. And we really want, because we really want to add personalities and voices to the Glass Cannon Network. It is too, it's just been too long of just us.

It took us so long to add Ellie and Sydney and Kaya and Ann and David and now we need to add more. We're going to do it through that and it's going to be free for everybody because it also, and what you guys do with the Patreon is you help us. You help us grow the business. 5E shows

reach more people. It's simply that. The hobby itself, the branding of that brand reaches a ton of tabletop role players. So we want to reach more people, and we think this is a great way to do it and to do it with our

sort of vision, and that's what I'm excited about. Yeah, so get us 80,000, you get a 5E show. If not, go fuck yourself. Sounds good. Good business model. Such a good salesman.

Such a good salesman. PT bound him for nothing. Customers always fucked. Customers always fucked. We're excited about that we've had some other goals we'll go into

detail about tomorrow don't forget this giveaway is happening you got less than an hour to take a screenshot of you watching this tag us at the

glass cannon on Instagram to be entered to win a Norse foundry dice set pretty excited about that I want more selfies

out there if I can make a request I'm getting a lot of TV sets computer monitors I want a little picture of you in there with make a request. I'm getting a lot of TV sets, computer monitors. I want a little picture of you in there with us. A little fun shot. Yeah, one of those.

He means it not in a creepy way. No, just to see folks having fun, Matthew. Come on, why do you aspire malice to just general ignorance by me? Oh, also one thing is We did some crossover with Stream of Blood playing Blades in the Dark We're going to be doing some more We're going to do one in October and one in November

We were trying to get one done in September But September is already a disaster for us With all the stuff we've got going on Because we're bringing too many shows back Too many shows back But October we've already got a date on the books for October and November For more Blades in the Dark, Stream of Blood crossover with our good buddies,

the SOBs. I'm excited about that. I'm excited to do more collabs with them in general, just because they're fun to hang out with. Jared's a great GM. I think it won't be too long until you see that going both ways, where you're going to see some Glass Cannon content with guests from Stream

of Blood. So we really like working with those guys. Anybody who's watched the Blades in the Dark knows Jared is a really great GM. And I just – I dig their style. So I'm in. I'm in. They're just good dudes. Yes. Clint and Jared and Ross.

Everyone I've met there has been phenomenal. And I can't wait to work more with them. I mean this is what I'm excited about just in the future is just bringing more people on and working with more people uh less time i have to spend with matthew the better right that's really what it all comes down to really at the end of the day just trying to edge matthew out slowly but sure you got a lot nice little two minute break at the end of intermission. That must've been nice. Do you write a, run any good lines for your play? My sister,

my sister who, uh, does not listen to the show cause she doesn't, uh, like this kind of thing, but did hop on to support us at eight o'clock. Text me and said, hold on.

I'll read, I'll read, I'll read the exact. Oh no. Why do people in comment about you being invited to things are you being bullied and left out i think that's a sisterly instinct because after the glass cannon live in dallas my sister elizabeth uh who is the tougher of my sisters pulled roy aside and was like stop fucking bullying my brother. She really did.

I get that a lot. That's great. I responded often. And on that, before we jump back into it, I just wanted to say a quick thank you to everybody that came out at 8 Eastern tonight

and tuned in. We've seen a huge jump since the start of the show. And hey, one of these days we'll hit that 2K goal. But thank you guys so much for tuning in now and tonight.

And I greatly appreciate it. Just want to let you, me too. Yeah. We'll get you. I wish I could have worn eyeliner for you all, but no,

do it tomorrow. Anyways, you know, you want to come on Matthew. Is that, it's not out of the ordinary for you at all. A little Sunday afternoon eyeliner, you know,

you do it. Come back from church and toss it on. I put on cat people and put on some eyeliner. You know you do it. Come back from church and toss it on. I put on cat people and put on some eyeliner. As this battle ends, obviously, the Onerogen falls and the mists directly surrounding this area begin to thin out. However, deeper surrounding the island, the mists are still thick. surrounding the island. The mists are still thick. If what Dr. Ren Elborn said is correct, Xandelus keeps all his own aerogens upstairs except one, the one you just dispatched. So you think to yourselves, if we get up there and we take out the rest of these own aerogens, we might be able to clear this clogging mist from the island and get off. In the meantime, you're in this weird room.

The windows are broken. I think Sir Julie saw some obsolete medical equipment, hand-drawn charts on the wall. Now that you're out of combat, what do you guys want to do? I am utterly exhausted. He's got these images floating around, and then slowly they dissipate as this deflection shield.

Actually, that would stay around for hours. He's like, I'm feeling the day wear upon me, even though it's only been such a short amount of time. I feel that I... I'm just going to sit down for a moment and he sits down um i'm just trying to like you know i i don't play a lot of casters and i love wizards i just want to play more of them and i love this idea of like what does it feel like when you expend every

ounce of spell energy you have you know what i mean does it really feel like a fatigue washes over you uh in some way so, he's just exhausted. He has not one spell to cast besides a cantrip, and he just sort of sits down on the floor and is breathing in and out. I'm not surprised, mate. You look bloody rooted. There we go.

Love it. Do we... I, in my mind, thought Xandus was upstairs, but it seems that that's not true. He's elsewhere, right? No, that you passed by stairs to get to this tower room that led up. So there are stairs going up. You were just trying to find this tower to find the Onenerogen first, thinking that maybe you could question him. Now you realize that's not the case, but you did learn it has some connection to the mists outside.

So now it seems as if all roads lead to upstairs. Yes, I believe, rubs his eye. I believe our mission is becoming clearer, is it not? Take out these Onerogens. Free the... Free the mist outside. It gives Winter and all of her people, and us included, a way out. I think that has to be our primary objective, and the rest of them, we can assume, are our surrounding Xanderus. But I still do not know, do any of you, and Sir Julie, you've heard about this cult of Xanderus praising him so often, perhaps you've picked up a thing or two.

What is it that he will be able to do? What are his abilities? Do we have any idea? Have we learned anything of that? No, I guess not. No, sorry. I totally drifted off there. I don't know what we're facing. I'm a bit rooted myself. I think perhaps we should rest. And, you know, kind of get a little bit of freshen up

and then we can approach it from a different angle. But I think you're right. We've got to get up there and we've got to kill the rest of these things. I agree. I'm feeling a bit narcolep. Why? You shouldn't be tired, mate. You just slept three separate times.

I never got to REM sleep, though. It was just... I wasn't restful is the problem. Fair enough. Your whole combat was just a series of naps. Terrible, terrible, fitful naps with a size 9 steel stirrup shoe in my side every time I fell asleep. A series of naps and groin kicks. Yes. Do we want to rest back at the...

Yes. So, Julie, I don't mean to pull you away so quickly You charged in with All bravery And I appreciate it greatly Yeah well done by the way Yes very well done Thank you it's been a while since I've Killed anyone

Landry killing Blair Does Sir Julie recognize the Oneiro gem like as a patient she's literally been there for decades yeah so you study the man obviously he's changed his face looks a little bit different

because of everything he's undergone but you do recognize him as a patient named LaShawn Wyman. This was LaShawn Wyman. LaShawn Wyman. A patient or a doctor? A patient.

Perhaps we should head back to the records room at some point to get more information on Lashan, but maybe we need a few more names before it's worth the journey. Well, I think, you know, it would be best if we returned to Winter. I think Sir Julie would benefit greatly by seeing that particular camp. I think it would embolden you, and maybe your very presence would shake off some of the fear of those people. The camp that you exist in now has very little fear, for there are mindless, uh, lemmings following this Xandalus. But to the south there is a camp of free-minded folk that are merely trying to get out of this place. I think your presence could embolden them.

Let's go there. That sounds delightful. We'll have to come up with another excuse, but we'll just say we are looking for more of Xander Luce's artifacts. Let us go. I have an excuse. I've got one. Let me, let me. You get back through there.

Save it for a year, Aldo. And there's Mark Johnson standing at the door with another one of his friends. Hello, Mark. He jumps back. Sir Julie. Hello, Mark. Sir Julie.

What's going on? Don't tell me you're going to go back out there again. No. In fact, we have to go back. We've got to backtrack again because I think, see, I have this idea for a recipe. I'm a bit of an amateur chemist, you know, and a bit of a mixologist too. Comes with the territory. And I have this crazy, mad idea to make some homemade Pepsi.

And I just need to get the ingredients. And I think, you know, I saw a bit of packets that could be something I could use in it. So just run back there, come back, and you'll barely know we're gone. Pepsi, you say. That's a delicacy in these parts. Yeah, it really is. Old Inky Verast is always talking about Pepsi The guy that you found

That does sound good Alright you can go Okay Right see you all later Well done Aldo Aldo leaves Can you also make Coca-Cola, Aldo? I prefer the Coca-Cola

I know, well I'll work on it Okay, thank you It's a secret formula I like the original, by the way Just in case Classic Classic, yes

Okay, classic Fair enough Can we go to winner's camp? Yeah, he's like, alright Alright One more time, I'll allow this I don't know why it takes I just need help carrying all the bottles Fair enough. Can we go to winner's camp? Yeah, he's like, all right. All right. One more time, I'll allow this. I don't know why it takes... I just need help carrying all the bottles.

Four of you carrying bottles. Why don't I go with you? No, no, no. Maybe I can help carry. What are you? It's a secret recipe. No need. It's the born of the secrets.

All right. You owe me at least one bite on each of your ankles. All right. Now, Mark, we talked about this. Sir Julie, you're cool, but I'd like to bite your friends. We'll talk about it later. Just let me know where you're sleeping. I'll take care of it.

And he lets you go. And so you get back to Winter's Camp. And, Sir Julie, you have been here before. Obviously, it looks a lot different now with these survivors. Clutching logs hold up in here. But while it is primarily dedicated to Phrasma, there is a statue of Sarenrae as well that you have probably come and prayed to before. And she does so now. Winter, as you're doing that

comes up, who is this? May I present Sir Julie Andrus We found her in the north hiding out in the same camp that we told you about yesterday

She has just helped us take out one of these and I'm very excited to report to you, Winter That we believe we have found the way To clear the mists from outside That is excellent As we continue down this path We will completely free the air of that yellow mist

And be able to get everyone out of here And so Julie, I believe Is going to be instrumental in helping us do this That is excellent news And Sir Julie, I believe, is going to be instrumental in helping us do this. That is excellent news. I find it hard to believe that there was just a landed knight around the asylum. Why didn't we discover her sooner? I will let Sir Julie speak for herself.

I have no land. Also, I may still be very, very mentally ill. Very, very mentally ill. I've been without my routine and my doctors and my medication for some days now. And things are getting interesting in my head. I see. So, Julie, do you mind if I speak with your new friends for a moment? Of course. I shall pray.

Yes. You're sure you're cool with this? She is a knight with a weapon. You trust her in your journey? Everything is riding on this. I know, but on the other hand We've sort of shorthanded otherwise Due to the deaths of another insane old woman So, you know, figure out

It's the proper puzzle piece For the missing puzzle piece That we're missing out of the puzzle I see I just realised she probably hasn't heard about Mrs. Old Lady yet. Oh, right. Oh, cat out of the bag. Where is Mrs. Old Lady, by the way?

Sorry for the spoiler. Well, Mrs. Old Lady, I'm afraid, fell in the... Remember I told you about how we clear out this yellow mist? Did you help her up, at least? Her hips must be in rough shape. Well, she fell as the result of her dying.

More than any... She died. Oh, that's horrible. But don't worry, Aldo embalmed her. It was really fantastic to watch, actually. He's very skilled. Quick as a wink. If you could have brought her to me, I could have cast Gentle Repose.

Oh. It's too late now. But that would have been too dangerous from what you've told me of this other camp. I think even coming here now twice in the past couple of days is really pushing your luck. now twice in the past couple of days is really pushing your luck. If we cannot fix this before these apostles find out about us, this could get worse before it gets better. So rest here, and then I would say do not come back until your mission is complete. It's just too dangerous.

And we have to complete the book by the end of this marathon. Yes, there's a lot riding on this. Yes, to answer your question more directly, we all have to deal with a certain amount of mental illness as we move through this place. I can only speak for myself, but I know that I am not wholly there. And so we can only take those who seem, at the very least, to be on our side. And she could not have made a better impression.

She made it very clear she was anti-Zandalus. And then in the first opportunity to cut down one of his followers, she did it with incredible effectiveness. So for my money, I'm happy to sleep in the same place as her. I think she will guard us rather well. And don't you just feel more courageous when you are in ten feet of her?

I'm not going to pray. I do. The minute she walked in while I had my questions, I do feel very courageous. Right. And then the moment she goes over to pray, mere 15 feet away, I'm

afeard again. Yes, I feel this as well. I need to be within 10 feet of her at all times. And I will stamp that fear down. Well, I trust your judgment. Obviously, mourning the loss of a friend will be difficult, but

these are strange times, and hopefully the end is nigh. If what you say is true about these Oneiragens, then perhaps we are nearing our escape. Yes, I think it is. Yes, right in front of us. Now, I must get some rest. Yes. And we will finish this as soon as possible. All right, wonderful. I'm just going to stand over here. And, yeah, so she just let you crash there.

And I am actually going to try to alchemically create some homemade Pepsi. I'm going to use craft alchemy. Roll a craft alchemy. I think it should be probably around DC-15. DC-15 is for acid. I mean, to be honest, it really shouldn't be that hard.

You know what I mean? There's whole factories that make gallons of Pepsi every day. Little food coloring, little sugar, little syrup. I like 15. Natty 18. That's a 26. That's some good

Pepsi. Ilky Velost is gonna be psyched if you find him. How many of us remember the Pepsi generation? If he hasn't already turned into a ghoul. I have a big jug of really thick homemade Pepsi. of the Pepsi generation. If he hasn't already turned into a ghoul. I have a big jug of really thick homemade

Pepsi. Do you think you made a concentrate that could be carbonated later, or did you make actual bottles? Oh yeah, for fountain drinks. It's fountain syrup. A jug of fountain syrup. Alright, anything else you want to do here? If anyone else is hurt,

Halster has plenty of blessings, so we don't need to use any wand stuff. He'll do that. He's going to want to do here? Just if anyone else is hurt, Halster has plenty of blessings, so we don't need to use any wand stuff. He'll do that. He's going to have to do that to himself because he can't heal. Yeah, because you don't get the natural healing. Yeah. Okay, great. So do you think you have enough to get me 10 hit points?

I was 10 down. Yes, I have four 1d8 heals and three 1d6 heals. Oh, great. Okay, so we'll heal up, rest, Four 1d8 heals and three 1d6 heals. Oh, great. Okay. So we'll heal up, rest, and I will take off mage armor. I was like, look how good my AC is. And let's rock and roll. Rock and or roll.

You head back the next day on the way to the Apostle Camp, still unmolested. The next day, on the way to the Apostle Camp, still unmolested. At the corner of your eye, though, you always feel like there's shadows creeping around, strange aberrations darting into the floorboards and into the cracks in the walls. Eventually, you make it back to the Apostle's Camp. You're greeted by Mark Oldbitey Johnson. Mark. And to Julie. There's a short story in between those.

What exactly happened between them. That's the flashback I want to see. I think it had to do with ankle biting. I thought you guys would come back last night. I was all ready. I had a bib on. Well, anyways, I'm glad that you're here. Just let me know next time you sleep, and I'll come

give you a massage with my teeth. Oh, God. Right, well, where is Ilki? Ilki? He's over there. Right, we have urgent business with

Ilki, if you'll excuse us. Okay, please. So, yeah, you go over there. Right, we have urgent business with Ilki. If you'll excuse us. So yeah, you go over there and he looks to be doing well. He has not turned into a ghoul. And he has a shirt on now and he's just chilling there. Oh, hello!

Our friend Aldo here has something to tell you. I think it is something that could get rid of that ghoul fever. Could be. Could be. A little surprise. He pops open the homemade Pepsi, pours a little bit of it in some carbonated water that he has.

Busy. He's just like, don't drink it too quickly. There you go. What in? I haven't had this in I can't even remember how long. He drinks it, and it's so powerful, it kills him on the spot. Oh, dear. I guess the formula was a bit off.

No, he drinks it. It turned out to be cyanide. Did you make battery acid instead of pep oh damn nine he's overjoyed he's like i have to sit i oh my i i'm feeling things all over my body i haven't felt in a long time i i actually need to go stand behind that curtain. Thank you. Thank you, sir. I appreciate this. This is so fucking good. You're quite welcome. It's a real bottler, isn't it?

Yes, I suppose it is. You could bottle this and sell it, but don't. I suppose. No, this is only for old Ilky. Yes, yes. Maybe I could have some more later. Oh, I'm feeling a real high right now.

I don't know if I want to get in a fight or fuck something. All right, okay, I'm feeling a real high right now. I don't know if I want to get in a fight or fuck something. All right, okay. I'm all fired up. Is that what the ankle biting is about? Is it a sadomasochistic? No, that's old

Biter Johnson, not me. Oh, sorry. Yes. Go behind the curtain. We've got a slightly less urgent business to attend to.

Shall we? Let's go. Mr. Julie, follow me. You guys know Aoki? He just saved his life. He was detained by some horrible ghouls. I don't want to seem insensitive or dismissive of people's mental health problems. But that guy is a real weirdo.

Yes, we've picked up on that. But deserves to live all the same, I'd say. Wouldn't you? Of course, of course. And for someone suffering from depression, he's never looked happier since you met him. That's the thing. That's one of the things that they would prescribe

for depression in medieval times was homemade Pepsi. Homemade Pepsi. Look it up. That's the thing. That's one of the things that they would prescribe for depression in medieval times was homemade Pepsi. Homemade Pepsi. Look it up. Do yourself a bleeding, bloodletting in a can of Pepsi and you're called

Dr. Pepsi. That's some leeches. It's a homemade Pepsi. Okay. Can we now head back and then where we first,

where we fought the first set of ghouls, you know, the first set of nine, there are two doors to the south that we haven't opened and then a stairway going up. Yes. And then there's another door to the freaking north that we haven't opened. No, you did open that. Oh, we did.

It just led to the outside. Oh, okay. And it was so cloaked with mist we're like to hell with it yeah you don't well we can open these doors to the south or we can just proceed up the stairs

I don't know part of me thinks we just go up let's just go up let's just do it Sir Julie draws her sword sir up it is Let's just go up. Let's just do it. Sir Julie draws her sword. See you. Up it is. Considering how nearly every detour has only served to chip away at my health and spells,

let us go up the stairs. Sir Julie, would you do us the honor of leading the way? It would be my pleasure. So overnight, Atticus actually wants to talk to Sir Julie about her life, about her travels. How open is she with him about her past?

I mean, in general, she's a little reticent and a little introverted. We can talk about why that is mechanically another time. But yeah, but I think she would be willing to talk to you. Like that she was in the world wound and she was in battle and all that kind of stuff. I'm just waiting to return to my regiment. Lord Commander Haddad is expecting me.

As soon as I am well enough to leave this place I am back up there with my order I think it's kind of interesting for Atticus just being around her all joking aside like there is that level of courage but I think that there's also um I don't know that he's ever been around anybody like this I think that Atticus has always

been around selfish self-interested people uh that are just trying to get ahead in a very urban sort of setting. And he's never met a real soldier or somebody that really gave everything of themselves to their deity, their cause, or whatever the case may be. And I think just hearing her talk makes him feel small and makes his the things he wanted seem insignificant uh up against you know saving the world from demons I mean Atticus does not have a whole lot of good flowing through him naturally but he where he wants to be cynical about this I think just her presence and the way that she speaks, it affects him.

And it sort of makes him think twice about what he used to think was so important. Uh, it doesn't really turn him completely, but it makes him doubt himself. I think, yeah, I think I should,

I should probably make clear. She's not particularly idealistic as a paladin. I mean, she's devoted for sure. Like in her, but she is, uh, sir, Julie is pretty, mean, she's devoted, for sure. Sir Julie is pretty

haunted by what happened to her. As opposed to other paladins, she's less interested in bringing others along. I think she's very much singularly focused on fulfilling her mission and getting back, and not particularly

interested in allies. In this case, this is great because after 47 years, it's about time that she gets to go rejoin her regiment. But this is exactly why I think it works perfectly on Atticus for the first time ever because it isn't preachy. It isn't like join my cause.

You know what I mean? It doesn't give him the opportunity to be cynical about the whole thing. It's, it's just as selfish. It's almost speaking a language he understands, but what you're going for is so much more important. And it just, just sits heavily. It weighs heavily on him.

The things that he is going for, money, power, fame, wanting to than your classic like paladin of Iomide who's just like trying to bring everybody in kind of thing. Like the personal nature of her vendetta or whatever it is, is he understands. So I think it works for him. That's good because she has a minus eight or she has an eight charisma. Oh, wow. I thought you said she was a paladin. I did say that.

She's not that kind of paladin. Oh, she's a paladin that Joe built. Yeah. I was like, you know what? So many paladins, they just kind of dump

they dump all the important stats I really want to dump charisma wait till you see my backup okay let's uh show me party order going up the stairs here uh I think uh if Julie's leading house she's happy to be immediately behind

her and we'll walk side by side with her as hallways allow. Okay. And Aldo usually tries to stick as close to Halster as he can. Okay. You see the hallways are about, the stairway is about seven, sometimes eight or nine feet wide. Never quite gets ten, so it's single file. Grant, I want you to do me a favor. Go to the map screen and pull out on

the whole map as revealed so far. We have a new innovation tonight. We didn't just have the grant-i-theft system. That would be enough. That would be enough. In addition, very simply put, we have a full map screen

up on there for you. Look at that. What? Nice work, Grant. have full map screen up on there for you look at that none of our ugly faces there to ruin the artistry just gorgeous map do you want to see that's only i want you i want you to go full out if you can there we go hold on i'm gonna scroll down because we're gonna see bars otherwise this is insane when you think how far you have come look at that wow that's crazy you know what i see these different rooms dude and i just see cities i see atlanta i see portland i see yeah i see philly i see yeah i mean i see london i see france well look at that isn't that crazy i remember when i when i picked Strange Aeons,

I was all fired up about it because I liked the story, but then I saw this map and I'm like, ha, did you ever see a map like this? Like, how am I going to do this map? How am I going to run that map? And that's how I felt. And now, for the first time since you guys left the dungeon, we will be leaving the Asylum

map. Really? What? Going to a new map. A new page? New page. Let me make sure I have it the way I want. New page who dis? What? Bottle cap.

New page who dis? New page who dis. That should be a bottle cap uh all right let me get get everybody over here it was sir julie followed by uh halster followed by scooby-doo followed by atticus i say scooby-doo and i can't think of someone's name no but but sheila Sheila And Aldo and some of the artwork Does look like an older Shaggy At times That's very true

He's very tall, lean Let's go To the new map Like 10 days ago years old I discovered that who voiced Shaggy In the original Scooby-Doo I think we talked about Your revelation The moment you believed in a higher power shaggy than the original Scooby-Doo. I think we talked about your revelation.

The moment you believed in a higher power. There was so much more to Casey Kasem than I had ever previously thought. All right. You see you're in a stairwell. It just keeps turning. And there's a landing

ahead of you, and then it looks like the staircase continues to turn to the left. Step up. Okay. You step up and a couple things happen. Alright.

Aldo, stay close to me. I will. Let me show you the room here. I'm so frightened. It's really happening. Come within ten feet of me. Always stay within ten feet of me. I just looked at Joe.

You turn the corner at the landing to finish going up those stairs and the wide flight of stairs raises to a chamber that has almost completely collapsed upon itself. And it makes sense. What little you saw of the upper levels, like in the room with the

apostles, there are staircases that are all crumbled. It would make sense that if the building shook, the upper floors would have collapsed first. So whatever tremors rocked the first floor have completely decimated the upper floor. You can't tell where one room or hallway begins and the other one ends. Shattered pieces of wall, ceiling timbers knotted like broken fingers, slump precariously on top of one another. Despite the chamber in front of you is near ruin. A number of tables, chairs, and bedrolls lie about the room. and bedrolls lie about the room. You see, through a gap in the wall of this room to the north is a hall or another room, you can't quite tell, completely choked with yellow fog.

Another one. Standing in front of you at the table, at the room center that's scattered with food scraps and melted taper candles, are three humans. You see four battered mattresses serving as perhaps sleeping pallets in the corners of the room. sleeping pallets in the corners of the room and they're like heaped with a mess of tangled sheets that look luxurious compared to like the bedrooms that you've

seen downstairs in the hovels. The bedrooms that even Sir Julie has become accustomed to with her little makeshift tent. The three men around the table turn to look at Sir Julie. Do I know them? They look a little familiar.

You don't know them by name. They're younger. They haven't fraternized with you. But you know them to be patients of the asylum. You're sure of that. You think that they were maybe on a different wing from you. But from time to time...

You guys have played cards. You guys have played cards. You guys have played cards. Cigarettes. Hello, boys. Did you say hello, boys? They're like, son of a bitch. That Sir Julia always took our cigarettes. They stand up from the table.

You don't know what they were doing there. And they're like, hey! Hey, you! Get out of here don't you hello us you go back where you came from there's gonna be trouble no one talks to sir julie that way yes unfortunately that was very rude and i'm afraid there will be trouble i told you to leave you trouble? I'll show you trouble! Roll for initiative. I have been corrected, by the way, in the chat.

My aura of courage doesn't affect any of you. Sorry. Oh, so you were wrong about it. Okay, great. Would you stop ruining everything for ten seconds? What did Winter feel if she didn't feel courageous?

A flavor courage. I? It was a flavor. Winter flavor feel? A flavor curve. I'll give you a flavor feel. That pisses me off. Wait, why doesn't it affect anyone else? Is it because of your archetype? Because of the archetype. I thought it was just the lay on hands and the...

I like... It's my evil and all that kind of stuff but it's just it's just it's all my orders as well I like an archetype that really changes a ton of stuff

some of the archetypes you just like lose one thing and gain another but I like the ones where you're like not it's topsy-turvy

you don't even know what class it is anymore at some point yeah it's a whole new class well you know yeah as I was

as I was delving into the Strange Aeons backup and the um psychos side sish backup i had to admit i was like god this is why i love pathfinder first edition yeah there is so much stuff it's insane when i was there there are some archetypes that i put together that i was just like it's not even that they're that powerful they're just so freaking interesting and unique uh I don't know I just love it and you know I I am confident second edition will get there but it's going to take years yeah it took Pathfinder years you know of course I get there and the way that

Kaiser releases source books too in a couple years there'll be uh you know 17 different choices for each class what'd you say Matthew I should also tell you, too. In a couple years, there'll be 17 different choices for each class. What'd you say, Matthew? I should also tell you, this may not become a thing, but as we're going into combat, I feel obligated to tell you that the condition I have set is when I'm about to fall unconscious. That's all I need to know. That's all you need to know. I just want to keep myself honest.

I wonder if your new character will survive this book. That'd be pretty interesting. That would be the need to know. That's all you need to know. Okay. I just want to keep myself honest. I wonder if your new character will survive this book. That'd be pretty interesting. That would be the quickest turnaround death. Well, let's start with initiative. Hey, by the way, what did you guys use to roll those initiative? What kind of dice? That would be Norse Foundry for all of your random number generating needs. Oh, my God.

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All right. I bet you he's like, that's my name now. Please call me Billy Melz. I don't want to be called anything else. I also wanted to real quick shout out the winners of our trivia contest. I say winners because I never got around to it yesterday. Things were a little too tense at the end of last night's episode. Let me interrupt this character permadeath with a quick koozie giveaway.

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Yeah 10 10 And Sir Julie 9 Sir Julie Not

Not hot on the Anish Shit I'm wearing Quite a bit of armor Um Alright It is round one And a great time For your Bombardier I'm wearing quite a bit of armor. All right.

It is round one and a great time for your bombardier to go first. Aldo, you are up. Yeah. Aldo, he, like, pops a bomb off of his bomb delir. And he's like, fire in the hole, ladies! And lady. And tosses it at the lead person. All right, trying to hit that guy right up front, which will do splash if it hits to the other guy right next to him.

Yes, so that is a 21 against Touch AC. That is a hit. Nice job, Aldo! Going above and beyond with that 21, Zony! And that's 15 points of damage. Holy smokes, dude. To the lead guy and a DC 15 reflex save for the one catty corner to him. Yikes.

Uh, fail! Yes, okay. So that's an additional, that's 7 points to that guy. For that map up there, Grandland. Absolutely. You said 7 points to him? Yep.

I don't care for that. I don't care for that one bit. Okay. Let's get all my HPs up here. Great. Nice job, dude. Nice. Awesome start.

Do you want to move at all, or was drawing the bomb a move? No, he doesn't. Nope. I'm not dude. Nice. Awesome start. Do you want to move at all, or was drawing the bomb a move? No, he doesn't. Nope, I'm not moving. Okay. It is Atticus's turn. Atticus turns to Aldo. Do it again, but make it a bit more explodey this time. And he casts Fox's Cunning on you again.

I should have waited. Ooh, that's nice. I should have waited. Ooh, that's nice. You should have waited, but I didn't 100%. That's a big gap from 23 to 16. I didn't know what their initiatives were. And if they split up, it's much worse. Totally. So that adds damage to the bomb? Is that what

that does? The intelligence bonus? I get more bombs, too. Intelligence bonus of four! And the thing is, why would I prepare Fox's cunning every day? It's my... It's my...'s bonus of four And the thing is Like why would I prepare Fox's cunning every day It is It's my I can't It's my

What is it I can't remember There's a reason That it just like I need to use it all the time Anyway Alright It is

So that's what Atticus does It's Atticus move No No he stays right there Okay Now you've made me mad! All right, so the dude up front charges at Halster.

Flavor charge, not actual charge. And the guy in the back comes up as well to Sir Julie. So they are blocking your means of entry here. They've thrown themselves into the fray. Let's do attack. This guy up north has a crowbar, and the guy down the bottom is holding like a bed leg.

A leg of a bed with a couple of nails sticking out of it. So the first one attacks Halster. Come on, buddy. That is going to be an 18 Clang Nice That's a good question

Flat footed is 19 That is still a miss Oh gross In fact Halster probably doesn't see it But just like out of the corner of his eye His shield covers up so much of his body That is truly amazing. I just want to see if I get a little...

Okay, great. Next one is against Sir Julie. Flat-footed as well. Big old miss. Nice, Sir Julie. Misses through. The one in the back is just like, turns around and yells to the back.

Oh, that's fine bring them on this is perfect yeah it was all buffed up as shit yeah to go and then yeah that's although is smarter than Einstein right now right for one thing yes yeah is that in the same scale like where you're at 20 strength you're stronger than our rhinoceros is that also like listed scale, like where you're at 20 strength, you're stronger than a rhinoceros? Is that also listed to be IQ equivalent, like 240 at your intelligence?

What are you? Are you 24 or 22 right now? I'm a 22 now. Yeah, I mean, just smarter than Einstein, smarter than Newton. It's just ridiculous. Just for like three minutes. All right. You're connected to the Matrix. The other one's going to delay minutes. All right. Yeah. Connected to the major.

The other one's going to delay his action for now. As far as you know, you know what? Honestly, I'm tired of this. Like good tactical play. I feel like a really relaxed old. When I get relaxed,

I feel like I can think a little bit more on my feet. Don't hold me to it. Halster, you are up. This guy's right in your John. Okayster halster's gets up swings out trying to impress sir julie finally holds a five on the die for a total of three right now it's it's a miss um yeah that's a miss it's got some miss um brutal andal. And obviously you don't want to... Oh, I'm still prone.

Hold on. Let me just give you the total minus my prone. I was like, why is that so dang low? I can't imagine you have a double digit bonus to hit. Yeah, come on, man. Yeah, 12. That's it. Okay.

Hey, that's all right. You were prone then. We were hitting the Energen really easily. Let's wrap up this round with Sir Julie. These guys have fire in their eyes. You've fought these guys before. They've got the yellow stained robes, but it looks like they're being treated to luxury

up here. Relative luxury to the camp downstairs. Sir Julie, you recognize them, but can't place them. What do you do? Sir Julie is like, don't you know the forces of darkness are creeping upon us right now? And takes a swing power attack with greatsword, the guy in front of her.

Nope. Nine to hit. Sir Julie, what happened there? Talk mentally. Why didn't that land? He was just so rude to her. She can only stand so much rudeness. I was perfectly respectful to him, even though he's clearly evil.

And he was just, you know, impolite. It gets to you after a while. You hate to see that. Alright, let's go to the top of the next round. It is Aldo's turn. Aldo, these guys have stepped up and got right on top of your friends here. Okay.

Aldo is, he's going to toss another bomb directly behind the one, the southernmost one to try to hit them both. Okay, okay. And now, that doesn't have, obviously that's AC5 to hit that square. Does that consider

shooting into melee? Well, in the sense that it has cover, you know what I mean so I guess It would become like an effective DC 9 So you have to take a minus 4 to the hit I'm sorry AC 9 Okay yeah I was curious about that

Alright so still pretty easy bomb for you what do you got So I rolled a natty 13 Oh crush so that would be Now oh it's the damage is different Now so it's It's a DC 17 reflex. Yes. And the DC goes up, too.

That seems just huge, dude. Yeah. DC 17 for half damage. Okay. For no damage, I think. Oh, for no damage where it's straight up splash. Okay. All right.

The guy up top who is the one that got lit up by it. Yeah. He rolls first. 17 on the dot. So no damage for him And then the next guy Natural one So he fails Alright

So he takes 9 points of damage 9 points of damage 9 points of splash Yeah so both of those dudes are in bad shape Right now Love it Love it. Love it. Okay.

Wow. At that moment, in the back of the room, you hear a voice. Voice that sounds very similar to Mrs. O'Lady's at first. Sounds like an older woman's like, Keep it down!

I said keep it down I said Keep it down And from the back Emerges this woman In like a pink bathrobe And dirty pantaloons She's got What?

Crazy hair Marks all around her neck And she comes out And let me show you What she looks like. She looks like this. Oh, oh my God. Big, giant boots.

Is it the bag lady? And she says, Oh yes, it's the bag lady. Who are these non-believers? Drive them out! And let's see here. She is going to... She looks old, but not unlike Sir Julie, looks crazy spry,

and she starts doing something weird with her body, like she's cracking muscles, like she's ready for a fight. And she will hold the rest of her action. Moving on, it is Atticus's turn. Oh, shit. I thought we had it in hand, and now it's gotten rather gross. Atticus is...

Oh, boy. Atticus is going to let's see what happens yeah Atticus is going to cast out in front of him to the creature directly in front of Halster

he's going to cast a ray of frost at the creature. So this is a touch attack with a plus four. So touch AC plus four for shooting through Halster. Gotta get a good roll here. Natty 15. That is a 19 against touch AC

plus four. Nice. 19 against this guy right in front of Halster's touch plus four. Yeah. That's a hit touch plus four. Yeah. That's a hit. Ice cold. Great. Six on the die.

That's three damage. Three cold damage. That's enough to kill him. Cold blood, dude. Cantrip kill. Cantrip kill. Cantrip kill. Cantrip kill.

Is there anything better than a cantrip kill? No. It's so rare. There's simply nothing better than a cantrip kill. There's simply nothing better than a cantrip kill.. No. Nothing. It's so rare. There's simply nothing better than a cantrip. There's simply nothing better than a cantrip. There's simply nothing better. Awesome. Awesome.

That actually, that opens things up now if people wanted to move into the room. Meanwhile, it is their turn. So, the guy that's standing next to Sir Julie will attempt to, let's see, can I strike her and then, yeah, and then I can move away to try to avoid an attack of opportunity, right? Yeah, you just have to move at half speed. All right. So she's going to attempt to strike her. Based on a feat they have, you are flat-footed as it tries to hit you with this end of a bedpost with a nail sticking out of it. Against a flat-footed Cracked Eye, Sir Julie, it's going to be right down the pipe here based on your flat-footed 15.

Miss. Miss on a 15. Yes, Sir Julie. All right. Now it's going to attempt Acrobatics check to try And avoid an attack of opportunity From you so this is straight up against your CM Dizzle Crack die

Okay it's going to be close 18 You just made it I thought you had a 20 or so So it zips around the corner and out of sight from you guys. Obviously, you can see where it is on the map. The other one just steps up into the, like, 10 feet away from it to the north and stands there waiting. Doesn't take a standard.

Doesn't take a genius to let you know what it's thinking about doing. You know what, though? No. I'm going to step. It's going to step to the north. It's going to step to the north. Halster's turn. Sir Julie, I'll take the northernmost fiend, okay? You got it, young man. You got it, young man. He smiles back at Sir Julie, I'll take the northernmost fiend Okay? You got it, young man

You got it, young man He smiles back at Sir Julie as he careens down the stairwell And takes a swing out at the bad person around the corner Come on, baby The bad person Okay, that's good, that's an 18 to hit 18 to hit One thing happens first.

Actually, no. That doesn't happen first. The 18 happens. That is a hit. Great. Give me that damage. This one's taking no damage, right? Yes. Eight points of damage.

Eight points of damage. Great. Now it'll take its standard action. I couldn't ready because I moved. No, no, no. You can. You can move and ready. Okay. Well, it's still up, action I couldn't ready because I moved No no no you can You can move and ready Okay well it's still up so it doesn't really matter I'm still going to take that damage unless I Crit and knock him unconscious so it's fine

I'm going to just take an attack This is against your flat footed AC Crack die city here 19 19 against flat That's exactly my flat Alright all right here's what's gonna happen first you're gonna take four points of regular then you're gonna take four points of sneak attack damage it hits you with like a um it looks like an old uh uh like a thick thick thick ruler that

would be like all folded up it just shab shabong, baps you with it. And some of the metal that is covering the wood is exposed and it slices at you. Like I'm back at Catholic school. Sister Marie, leave me alone. Also at that point. Now, now I'm going to wait. I'm going to wait, going to wait.

It is Sir Julie's turn. Okay. Sir Julie spotting. Does she recognize the old lady? You have heard tell of her. She seems to match the description of Agrabag Lady Loomis, who has been here maybe as long as you have, but you were never in the same wing because she was a...

She was probably locked in a secure part of the asylum. She's a violent criminal, and you were, you know, just someone here, a convalescent. She killed nine men in Rosenport. They were called the Bag Lady Murders, and that's also where Xandelus was transferred from, so there's some sort of coordination. Connection.

Love a grant note. That takes good notes. Very uh, connection. Connection. It's his mother. Love a grant note. Yeah. That takes good notes. Very precise. Always. Okay. Mrs. Olay.

Sorry. Oh, that's going to happen. Uh, sir. Julie is going, having seen the guy dash around the corner and she knows what he's going to do, but she doesn't care.

She is going to just double move straight through the room and take the A-O-O from the guy as she passes. Really? Okay. That guy will swing out flat-footed. He's the only one. Oh, natural 20. Oh, no. Might be my first weekend. I would say

it's going to be a tough confirm, and I still think it is, but it is against your flat-footed. So let's see. Spoiler, my flat-footed and my regular AC are not that close. Okay, yeah, that's what I thought. All right, so I've got to roll rocks here. Do I have any bottle caps? No, I don't get those.

Fifteen. Miss. All right. Exploding dice. The sneak attack will not explode. So let's roll the regular damage first. Six regular and then two

sneak attack. Oh, eight again. Mrs. Old Lady just rocks at the hit and will swift action lay on hands between her move actions. Okay. And will heal a little bit.

And she'll just keep moving, and she will get right up through the bag lady and say, I've heard tell of you, Mrs. Loomis. I love this picture, the two of them. Yeah. So, perfect. Two women who have completely different hats. That is fantastic

that you just had that laying around. Is that Don't Throw Mama from the Train? It is, yeah. Oh, my God. You clumsy poops, what are you doing that for? That is great. The lion is sultry. Right.

It's all coming back to me now. You damn sultry in here. This is amazing. I want to see this standoff between Sir Julie and Agra Bag Lady Loomis. And I think we're about to see it, because Agra never took her standard last round. She will take that this round.

Now that Sir Julie is right there. And what she tries to do is strangle you. Oh, okay. She will attempt to grapple. It does not provoke an attack of opportunity because she has improved grapple.

And she's just going to, yeah, straight up try to wrap her hands around your neck. I think I got you, dude. 26. Holy shit. Yeah, you got me. All right, so she's just like... Get out of here.

She just latches on with her hands. This is when the two-handed weapon really bites you. God. Let's see whenever you successfully... Can I grab the grapple condition? You can. You do have the grapple condition. Yeah, but at least as a paladin,

your escape artist is through the roof. Is that Kermit drinking the tea? We're having a good time We're having a lot of fun tonight Okay, I will move Agra now In the Anish Order My delayed guy went

Do I take any damage from that? No, it's just a straight up grapple No damage No damage Oh no Yeah, she swallowed a hole no Yeah she swallowed a hole Yeah she swallowed a hole She a snake lady?

A maggot? We succeeded in a grapple check Oh no that's right Remember I told you She did something with her body Yes Okay great You do take damage

And the doing of something was not a standard. No, you know what? I want to be able to do this, but I can't do it. What I wanted her to do requires a move action. So I'm trying to think. She came out. She moved into the room. She spoke.

She moved into the room. That was her move action. This was her standard. I can't do it. That's fine. It's really fucking cool, but I can't do it by the rules of the game, so I can't do it. New round. Aldo.

You could do it if you just don't grapple. Yeah, I know. This is better for me to grapple. Because now I don't need to use the move action. I can use the move to do this next round. Okay. Aldo is going to clamber up the stairs with his lanky 6'7 frame, pop another bomb off his bomb-de-lire,

and toss it at the lower-most dude. Directly. Directly. Let's get a direct hit, dude. Natural fucking 20. Oh, no. Natural fucking 20. Oh, my God, and it has cover, too.

I was so worried, and you nailed it. I mean, that dude is so dead. That dude is so dead to me. Roll to confirm. That is definitely a confirm. Natural 13 on the confirm. All right, he's dead. Let's see if the crit that's picked has any reverberating effects that would affect the rest of the battle. Okay, let's see this.

This one. Oh, international. Sorry, international peeps. It's see this. This one, oh, International Edition. Sorry, International Peeps. It's so late. But maybe you're listening to this later or watching it later. This one is Oz from Hereford in the UK. Oh, thank you, Oz. Hindsight is 20-20. Oh, this is long.

Here we go. As you find the sweet spot on your target, you are struck by a flash of inspiration revealing a weakness in another foe. Since earlier in battle, you turn and unleash another shot almost imperceivably fast and without consciously aiming

and operating entirely on intuition. Double damage and you may score another automatic hit against a different target within range. Roll a d20. If the result would be a critical threat, it immediately confirms and you crit the second target as well. Holy shit. Oh my god. Alright, so it's going to be this dude around the

quarter here. Roll a d20. Dude. Well, no, I'd throw it at her. No, but what did it say? It's a target you saw earlier? Yeah. He saw her. I saw her. And I don't think he can throw around the corner like that, really. Yeah, I wouldn't be able to hit that. Yeah, okay. Alright, that's fine

with me. It's not a random target. It's a target, any target, right? Yeah, it says, yeah, without consciously operating. Sounds good to me. Another foe seen earlier in the battle. It doesn't say it's random. Yeah.

All right. What do you roll? What a cool crit. What a cool crit. This could be enormous. That is a 16 against touch. 16 against touch is a hit. Yes. Okay.

It hit automatically. We were just rolling to see if it is a hit. Yes! Okay. It hit automatically. We were just rolling to see if it was a crit. Okay. But it wasn't a crit, just a regular hit. Yeah, that's why it's outside my first range. All right, so what is the damage? Okay, so that's 12 points of damage, and I need another DC 17 reflex save from Julie.

So Julie. Oh, God. Yeah, that's going to happen. Yeah. Brutal. I don't get it. Okay. As I told you about my armor,

I got it at Talbot's. You take nine points of fire damage. Oh. Sorry. So Julie. That's the least of her troubles right now. I mean, she's got to lay on hands. And grappled, that's all she can do.

So I think it's worth. So you killed one guy now, That's the least of her troubles right now. I mean, she's got to lay on hands. And grappled, that's all she can do. So I think it's worth all I can do. So you killed one guy now, and then was able to ricochet this bomb off and do damage to the bag lady. Huge turn, huge crit. I'm going for boomerang. Perfect. All right, so that was Aldo. It is now Atticus's turn. Only one apostle left in her, but you really don't know what foe you're

facing in her. Yeah, which is why I don't want to pull out too much before I see what it is she is doing. He is going to go ahead and do the same thing. He can move up next to Halster here

and he will fire another ray of frost at the apostle directly on the other side of Halster. Okay. Again, that has to be a good roll. Natural 20. Oh! Natural-king 20 on a cantrip. That GD magical.

Now this is Touch AC plus 4 against Touch AC plus 4. Come on, bro. That is an 18 against Touch AC plus 4. Come on, bro. That is an 18 against Touch AC plus 4. Touch plus 4? Yeah. Wait, so I minus 4 to my touch, right? No, I am. Add 4 to your touch. That's what I have to hit, and I rolled

18 adjusted. It's 18 exactly. Yes! That is a confirmed crit. Back to the list. Their touch is 14, so... And that is a magic crit, dude. That is a magic crit. Back to the list. Their touch is 14, so... And that is a magic crit, dude. That is a magic crit. Oh, my God. I don't even know the last time we saw a magic crit.

Oh, it's going to be... Back to bad crits. Oh, my God. Come on. All right, here we go. Unbelievable. This one from... Oh, you'll like this kid.

Garrett in Denver, Colorado. Hey, Garrett. Near Ascension. skid Garrett in Denver, Colorado. Hey, Garrett. Near ascension, you cast your spell with such perfection that you nearly ascend to godhood and become ethereal with a brilliant flash of light. Double damage and you are

incorporeal for 1d3 rounds. Oh my god. Holy crap. That's cool. That is really cool. Alright, the damage won't be that crap. That's cool. That is really cool. All right. The damage won't be that crazy. Max.

Max. Wow. Six points of damage. Of cold damage. I rolled a five and a six on 2d6. And I am going to be incorporeal for one round. Nice. That is unbelievable.

Unbelievable. What was the damage? Six points of cold damage. All right, so he's actually still up. That was the guy that hadn't been hit yet. He came into the fight late. But Halster has. Halster hit him for eight.

Oh, he got hit, but he's still up. He's on his last legs, though, so Halster, you get a chance to take him out before he attacks you. Halster has to take him out because he wants to get into the fight, seeing Sir Julie get grappled like that. So he will swing out at this bad boy. Here it comes. Total of a 10 to hit. No good. No good. here it comes total of a 10 to hit no good no good and

that crit wasn't enough to kill him so he's going to take a swing at you Alistair I didn't get to use my 5 foot step there buddy please and I'm also going to use a swift action to expend a use of fervor on myself and I'm going to super use a swift action to expend a use of fervor on myself,

and I'm going to supercharge it with a blessing to do an additional 50% healing on myself. I heal myself for three points. No, two points. Very nice. All right, so what he's going to do then is he's going to move 5, 10, 15, 20, 25. He's going to come around so he doesn't provoke 20, 25. He's going to come around so he doesn't provoke and get on the other side of you here

so that he gains some cover from this bomb-throwing maniac. And he's going to just swing out with that weird, broken, thick ruler against your flat-footed AC. 15 against flat. That is a miss. That is a big old miss. Get that crap out of here! Nice!

Sir Julie, this crazed old woman has her incredibly powerful hands around your neck. You are grappled. What would you like to do? Okay. Sir Julie as a free action is going to drop her greatsword.

Ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting. Unfortunately, there's a hole right there on the floor because of the shaking of the foundation. An extra planer hole. It goes straight down into forever. She will then swift action smite evil on the bag lady, assuming she's evil. She's chaotic good. And then... She's the hero this asylum needs. Real anti-hero.

She was on her way to kill Xandulus when we interrupted her. She will then, with her one free hand, draw the cold iron dagger from her belt and power attack, try to stab at the bag lady. Okay. That sounds good. and power attack, try to stab at the bag lady. Okay. That sounds good. That is a power attack on 20 to hit. 20's a hit. Nice.

And that's with all... And you're taking the grappled penalty. The grappled penalty is on. Power attack was on. But I have smite evil on. The power attack was on. Sheep is truly strong. But I have Smite Evil on, so that... Oh, yeah. Counter-ass. Nice.

Nice. That was Crack Die. Okay. That is going to be 11 points of damage. She, like, stabs her in the ass over and over again with the dagger. Shipping her. Just shanking her. Yeah.

You heard he got shipped? I shipped him. Where's that from? I don't know. I think you just made that up. Nobody remembers that? I don't know what you're talking about. I thought you said...

Oh, it's usual suspects. Oh. Right? Yeah. I heard he got shipped. Yeah. I just thought you should know that. He killed somebody in prison.

Anyway. That really bombed, O'Brien. It really did. Now I'm going to kill Sir Julie. Not really, but I'm going to try. All right, so this is what she does. First thing she does is she uses a move action to do that thing that I was telling you she was going to do. It's really fucking cool.

And she kind of resembles, I don't know, she feels so strong in the way she's holding you, but she starts to flow like water a little bit as she tries to maintain this grip around your neck. So first things first, going to try to maintain the grapple. 28 to maintain the grapple. 28 to maintain the grapple. Now a couple things are going to happen because of her particular build. You're going to take a lot of damage. First you're going to take four points of damage.

Then you're going to take another four points of damage. Then you're going to take because of the strangle ability her sneak attack damage as well another five points of damage. That was a lot of damage. It was a lot of damage. Swift action. She closes her

she's got her fingers completely locked in around your neck now. It's just so that's eight plus what what'd I say, five? Thirteen points of damage in one round. Oh. And that's her turn.

I think I know what she is. What do you think? I think she's a brawler. She does have a level of brawler, yes. You're good. You're good, man. It's because I have a Macho Man homage built up somewhere for one of our games someday. Backup Macho Man brawler. because i have a macho man like homage built up somewhere for one of our games someday the amount of backup characters that are in the ether uh like on the network they're just floating around there in a in a non-space waiting to come out uh-huh uh yeah so i can tell you right

now she has this thing called martial flexibility which allows her to use a move action to get a and so the feet she took was Kraken style, which allows an extra four points of damage when you succeed on a grapple. Did you say Kraken style? Kraken style, yeah. Do you know how appropriate that is with the Thulu theme? Because a Kraken's a squid. That's amazing. I've had a little time to prepare.

Yeah, so and then the strangler ability allows her as a swift action to do her sneak attack damage when she maintains a grapple as well. So that's really cool. Usually you maintain a grapple, you just do a little bit of damage. She does. Seeing that happen, Halcer shouts out to the Atticus and Aldo.

Please take care of this fiend, this lesser fiend in front of me so that I can reach out and heal Julie next round. Try my... I'd rather you killed it first. Julie, you good on hit points? No. No? Oh, interesting. That's why I'm trying to rush you over there.

I took the AO from that guy. That's right. And then she just did a whole bunch of damage to me. Troy is notoriously unfamiliar with the hit points of characters. No idea. No idea, yeah. Troy, what would you say a third level character has a hit point? I don't know.

60, 65. 60, 65. No. I would say on average casters 21 or so and then martial characters in the high 20s, a 28, maybe a 30 if you're Grant. I do have a 31. Okay. I have a 34, but I'm Palvin, so I have a D10.

Yeah, I'm a DA, then I have a 31. Okay'm palvin so I have a d10 yeah I'm a da then I have a 31 okay alright you know you thought you were going to get a situation when someone asked Oprah how much a gallon of milk cost and she's like I don't know I've never done shopping since 1985 alright let's move right along

here Agra had a good round she deserves it it's Aldo's turn Aldo you see you know Sir Julie got hit on her All right. Let's move right along here. Agra had a good round. She deserves it. It's Aldo's turn. Aldo, you see. You know Sir Julie got hit on her way to the back there when she bravely went after Agra Loomis. And now you see that Agra is on top of her, just choking the life out of her. Tough position.

She's the only enemy left. What are you thinking? Yeah. Okay. So Aldo. But she's not the only enemy left, right? We still have the Apostle in front of Helster. Oh, I forgot he's still alive, because you just barely killed him.

Oh, that's right. Oh, did you get hit by that bomb, too, Julie? Yes. I took nine points of damage from the bomb. Yeah. I took that last combat. That nine. It hurts.

It hurt. My lay on It hurts. It hurt. My lay on hands was like two points. Okay. Aldo. All right. He's just going to step up next to the other guy, the other minion guy, and pull out his sickle as he's doing it and take a hack at him while he's fighting Halster. I like it. I like it.

That is a 15 to hit. 15 to hit. Hits exactly. Yes! Yes, dude. MVP. MVP. MVP puzzle.

And that is four points of damage. That's enough to take him out. Amazing play, Skid. Amazing play. Three apostles down. Can you save Sir Julie? Atticus Grimm. No!

No! Is the short answer. I cannot! I cannot! Afraid I rather cannot. What are you thinking? It is your turn. She would accept hell! I'll tell you what I'm thinking. I'm thinking that I can't

that I would love to like create an illusion to distract her, but like I don't, I've never seen Zandalus, right? Like there's no paintings of him, there's no pictures of him or anything like that. There's nothing I could generate an image of him from to distract her. That was my first thought.

I cannot remember what you know and what you don't. I don't think we do. We don't actually have pictures. Remember we joked about having Polaroids in the files? Why can't we have photos in this reality? We have magic. It needs to be a photo equivalent. I think we should have daguerreotypes if emerging gunpowder can exist.

There should be a photo you have to pose for three minutes for because it's so low sensitive to light. Or like Harry Potter photographs that move and stuff. Magic's stupid. Magic's stupid. Magic's stupid. You know, I really don't know. I'm just going to hope that Halster can heal her. So I'm going to move up, and I will, you know, see if there's any chance. I think it's a very low chance, but from here, I will cast a magic missile on her

and see if I can possibly roll high and take her out. But I'm sure she's got more hit points than that. Okay. But hopefully Halster can get a heal in. So quick magic missile. Here we go. Ooh, max and not max. So that is eight points of force damage.

Eight points of force damage ain't half bad, but it does not take her out. Okay. It is Halster's turn, unless you want to move Atticus. I already did. Okay. I already moved further in. All right. You can't move twice in one round.

Halster. If you took a standard. All right. Halster will swift action. I want to play second edition. Halster will swift action heal himself for five points. Okay. He will move exactly the extent of his movement in order to get directly adjacent to Sir Julie

Andros to spend a point of blessing. Use another one of his four blessings per day, and then he is going to expend one of his prepared divine favors to spontaneously cast it as Cure Light Wounds empowered. So here it comes. That is nine points of healing. Oh, nice.

Six on the die because of the blessing. Adds another half again. Nine points of healing. I love the camera. There you go. I mean, the main thing I love is the grant I theft system at the bottom. I'm a marketing genius. I don't know if you know this.

You got this mug up here too If it's not grant type theft It's a cheat We gotta get you full time buddy This is what you're doing now Those annual memberships help They really do Get Grant on the staff

I don't want to overstate this Grant But it's one of the best things you've done It's very very funny It really is, it's fantastic I think sometimes people don't want to overstate this, Grant, but it's one of the best things you've done. It's very, very funny. I know. It really is. It's fantastic. And that's what I think sometimes people don't realize because we have this public-facing number and stuff. They're like, how come Grant's not full-time?

Because Grant is very expensive. He's very, very, very good at what he does. Did you know Grant has a job? Grant is extremely gainfully employed. Yeah, that pays him very, very well to do exactly what we need him to do? And also help save lives in the process. It's a bit of a delicate

process, but we'll see what happens. We try. We try. Not to mention, Skid owns several pharmaceutical companies. That's true. That's just people matching from time to time.

Sir Julie, you are up. You feel a little more emboldened by this light touch on your back from a hand. Thank you, young man! She says. Just yesterday, he was stomping on his genitals.

She will swift action lay on hands. Okay. Excellent. Six. And then... Oh, beautiful. Pretty invigorated now. She will power attack with the dagger against the bag lady.

Dude, this is huge. Come on. This couldn't be more huge. Come on. Is she still smote? She's still smote, but it's a trainer. But you't be more huge. Is she still smote? She's still smote, but it's a tweener. 17.

She's also grappled. I know, I have it in her grappled AC. It's 17. Yes! I'm just trying to see if there's any way I can get out of it, and I don't see it. Oh, celebrate good times. Oh, my God. Celebrate good times. Oh my God. Celebrate good times.

You're dead. You are dead. That is 11 points of damage. Can we get a container to bag this up? Paper or plastic? 11 points of damage. We like to recycle on the glass cannon. Is enough to kill Agrabag Lady Loomis.

Yeah! Yes! This guts her. She's like, God! It was just like, stab, stab, stab, stab, stab. Yeah, it's just so great.

It's so great. I mean, now that is a woman who has been in intense hand-to-hand combat. You just drop the sword once you're too close and just stab, stab, stab, stab, stab, stab. Got them. Amazing.

Amazing. Because she was no slouch, but you guys making short work of the other apostles certainly helped keep you alive a little bit longer. She crumbles to the ground. She lived a long life. She killed a lot of people. And then she got a second chance at her killing when the asylum fell. But now she has died at the hands of Sir Julian Bruce, who has joined yet another crusade.

You see that the room kind of just continues and crumbles to the back. And then there's a hole in the room to the north you feel like you could probably crawl over that rubble um but that whole room up ahead is choked with uh moving yellow fog um can we do some does everyone we do some healing? No, I'm at full, so let's move on. Yes, I'm happy to spend another few charges off the wand. What is the bonus on a wand? Plus one? Plus one.

First one is four points of healing. Second one is four points of healing. Do you require more? Yes. I mean, just the tone. No, it's it's just another one i give you another four you got 12 okay actually that's perfect i'm exactly up to full oh wow uh cool um i would offer i'm not gonna make that joke go back a lot of dead bodies here four Four bodies and a room full of shit.

Search the bodies. Search the shit. Yes. Search the bodies immediately. Immediately. All right. The apostles, they were wearing padded armor, basically scraps. It was probably like they stole from the lockers of the orderlies.

They have saps and makeshift crowbars and stuff. Really nothing on their person. Now, Agra has bracers of armor. I'll tell you right now, their bracers of armor is plus two. Holy shit, dude. Are we talking about a roll-up? I feel hot. Wait, let me see if I can even wear it.

I don't think it'll stack if you're wearing armor. She's not wearing any armor. This would be perfect for Atticus. Exactly. Braces of armor are great for wizards, if I'm not mistaken. They would work for monks, too, right? Yeah. Agra, this is interesting,

because you'll never find this out otherwise unless you dig into her backstory. Agra terrorized Rosa Porte in the 4670s, killing several unfortunates living in the sewers near the Cinco Macti School of Sciences. Reports of the murders referred to Agra as the Bag Lady in the days before her capture, not as a comment on her social status. She was, in fact, a student at the university at the time, but due to her habit of smothering and choking her victims by wrapping grain bags around their heads. No one ever determined what incited Agra's murders, but psychopathic tendencies were diagnosed as a contributing factor. As such, rather than being sentenced to death, Agra became a ward and subject of study at institutes and asylums all across First Sex County until eventually she ended up here at Briarstone. Well, I wonder if that's just like random or if that's like if she was already, you know,

touched or whatever by the Tatterman because, I don't know, just that idea of like grain bags just gives me that thought of like, you know, the bag over the head sort of thing that we were seeing, like a bag face. I wonder if he was already affecting her. I mean, this is kind of where the Delta Green stuff and the Pathfinder stuff cross over because I think Pathfinder is going to give you a little bit more explanation about what's going on, whereas Delta Green is just going to be like not explain at all how this complete insanity is happening uh and so i appreciate that about strange ants that you might get a little more insight into how she started becoming unhinged like that it does it seems random but it's probably not the other thing that a control f for agra does in my notes is that when we were talking to uh uh when we found out brenton was living uh in the back of the chapel uh we were talking to dr renna alborn and uh xandalus and

agra i think we learned from the second floor to the west or believed to have been so we must be closer than ever wow seeing if if the analyst is actually here. Yeah. If he's real, if he's not. Monster or man. I wonder if words will fail. I wonder. Or will you praise praise?

Do you guys want to do anything else in the room? Do you want to search the room? Search the room thoroughly. Take our time. Okay. Searching the... Roll a perception check, actually. We'll take 20. Okay. Searching the – roll a perception check, actually. We'll take 20.

Okay. Searching the pallets around the room turns up a bag that contains 200 gold pieces worth of coins and jewelry, 12 bite-sized pieces of jerky, and a pearl tooth, which I'll just tell you is worth 18 gold pieces. Wow. All right. So let's each take 55 gold pieces. Slightly more than we actually got, but whatever. Looking at the table that they were sitting at, you can see that they were using a harrow deck to play some nameless gambling game.

Perhaps there's coins about the table that are included in there. The deck itself is probably worth some money. If you're taking 20 and really rifling through these cards as well, you see that the card known as theader, depicts a figure veiled in yellow, bearing an armful of misshapen rubies. Skid, do you have anything to say? Is that the king in yellow? You look at the rubies. He was referring to the rubies.

See, you probably got ripped off. You've got to be careful when you're buying your synthetic rubies because if they come misshapen, that's on you. You have to do your research. There's something strange about this card. You can't quite put your finger on it. Can I do a detect magic? I mean, is a Herodic magical by nature?

Not by nature, and neither is this card. It just kind of jumps out at you. There are other figures in the background that at first look human, two arms, two legs, maybe a little short. But then you look, and they seem a little alien in nature. Like their feet end in cloven hooves, and their bodies are covered in horn-like protrusions. Their feet end in cloven hooves, and their bodies are covered in horn-like protrusions. And their mouths look like regular mouths, but if you look really closely, it looks like there's little tentacles coming out of their mouths. Does anybody have a knowledge?

I'd say knowledge local. I would even do knowledge history, if you have it. Knowledge arcana? Yeah. You know what? I'll do Knowledge Arcana as well. Yeah. 22 for Arcana. The Act of Heroic is a magical act.

Okay. 25 for local. You feel like this card in particular carries some obscure significance familiar only to the enigmatic race known as the denizens of Leng. Oh, no. Oh! Matthew knows what those are.

Anyone who has played a certain adventure that I ran for our $100 subscribers will know exactly what they are. I don't know what that is. I do. And I know something about the rubies, too. Well,. I don't know what that is. I do. And I know something about the rubies, too. Well, that I don't know. Wow. Unfortunately, Serge really has never run that particular adventure. Just looking through those cards, and just that one jumps out at you,

and the more you analyze it, you're like, whoa. Let's just pocket these for now. I hope they're not denizens of Katie Lang. No! Or else we'll be battling a smooth blues guitar solo later on. Looks like you could probably move to the left here at the west, or you could go to the north through the broken wall. It's much worse broken to the west. You're still going to have to climb over some rubble to the north through the broken wall it's broke it's much worse broken to the west uh he's still

gonna have to climb over some rubble to the north uh it's okay so everybody's healed up right yeah um i'm going to cast mage armor on myself uh and then move wherever you guys want. So, Julie, what do your instincts tell you? Is it north or is it west? I have no instincts in these matters, young man. I defer to your judgment. My instinct says, chase him down now.

We are strong. Let's go west. Okay. All right, place yourselves on the map's go west. Okay. Alright, place yourselves on the map to the west. I can smell him. Okay. Alright, you move over to the west, and now you're like climbing over this rubble. And you see that the wall opens up, heads to the north,

but it also turns around on itself. So there's a good chance that whatever is left of the room or rooms or hallway or hallways up ahead may be all wide open. So that opening to the north there may just end up in the same place. Thick fog in the back of the room climbs towards the front. Oh, there's fog. More goddamn fog so we can't see anything.

All right. Let us continue. Okay. Continue forward. Yep. Continue forward. Yep. What is the light situation? Is it lit? It's lit. Oh, and Hauser is constantly

casting light on her shield. They'll lead the way. I took the aura off because I was getting annoying and always clashing with the map. Excuse me. It is not lit. The room with the people playing cards, they had light.

Up here, it's dark and choked with fog. So you're going to have to rely on Halster's light. And that's what you can see. I guess we're Halster's standing there. I've got the aura up now. Yeah, you can see a little bit more. Yeah, but that's 20 feet of bright light and another 20 feet of dim light. I guess you guys don't even have low light vision, so it doesn't matter.

Okay. So it's three humans, right? Three humans and a rat foe. Turtles in a half shell. Turtle power to power. You guys really need that light Alright That was very judgy Joe

No I'm just worried It could get bad I think that rad nose is starting to change his personality When all other lights Go out What do you do So is this rebel like blocking the way Or could we go straight north Or or do we have to turn?

It's pretty treacherous, but if you took your time, you could probably climb over it. If you move a little bit forward, you can probably see a little deeper into the room. Okay, so right when you get about there is when the room starts to really open up to you. And you see a couple of things. Let me reveal on the map, first of all. Oh, multiple Onerogens. Oh, my God. Oh, God, these freaking things.

You see cracked pillars bent at broken angles, supporting a sagging ceiling that looks like it's barely being held up. While most of the walls that are left look ready to fall apart, the northern wall, which you can barely trace through the fog, has completely gone away, creating a massive gap that's open to this strange weather beyond. open to this strange weather beyond. Opposite it, so to your right, the wall that you could have walked through to the north,

it's covered in parchment pages, covered in stark lines of coal and chalk. And you see, surrounded by this yellow mist two Onerogens standing there mouth agape soundless fog emanating out of their mouth

and surrounding them you don't know if the fog is coming from them or from the outside it's all commingled. And then it's this wall here to the south that's covered in these chalk and coal drawings. What do you do? I take a look at the drawings,

see if I can make them out. Okay. Do you want to move over there to get closer? Pause. I'm going to take the braces of armor plus two, right? Yes, sure. Go for it, buddy. Go for it.

Okay. I mean, that gives me a wizard AC. Oh, no, it doesn't. Never mind. It doesn't stack where you made it. Yeah, it's going to be useful. But maybe if I get surprised, it wouldn't exactly remember yeah it's gonna be useful but maybe if i get surprised it wouldn't be so useless but um aldo from where you're standing you'd need to get closer they

start on this wall here and there's kind of a broken pillar in front of you if you wanted to examine them i just take a step onto the rubble to the east and just kind of peek around with my head peek around the pillar to get a look at the drawing. Yeah, so you peek around the corner, and they look like scenes of chalky mist, but in the mist, impossible, ominous shapes that seem to be, maybe it's just a trick of the eye,

a trompe-l'oeil moving on the page. Meanwhile, the Anaragans just stand there, spewing yellow mist. The wall to the north, wide open. And these drawings continue all along this wall to the south here. Do we recognize the style of the artist? Excellent question.

Yeah. Sir Julie Andrews does not. It's Aldo. Aldo thinks it may be Xander Luce's work or maybe what his work evolved into because the stuff you looked

at before may have been ominous and to at least Eliage Lissandro oddly prescient. They weren't... They didn't look like they were moving. But again, it might just be the mist playing tricks with your mind. Hmm.

Well. Well, I think the only solution is to walk up to these awful things and cut them to shreds. But I won't do it. I already did it once, and I'm utterly useless up next to them. But if they put you to sleep again, Alistair, we're out of luck. Do you think you can withstand it?

Do you think you can withstand it? I could try, but if Julie thinks discretion is the better part of valor, I can wait outside and heal anyone who may be in trouble. It might be a better use of my time. It's a coward's argument. Perhaps I shall wade into the light, into the mist, but follow behind me in case I fall asleep. You may rouse me. Oh, yes, yes.

We'll switch positions. I'll be right behind you. I didn't fall asleep until I got right next to them, so yes. That sounds like a great plan, Julie. Yes. I'll remember you called me a coward, by the way. Atticus. Fear not, fear not, young man.

We have greater horrors ahead of us yet okay if you say so Julie so Sir Julie will walk up next to the Oneirajah okay where does Halster go to there

and Aldo and Atticus Aldo's gonna move along? Aldo is going to move along the wall of drawings and get behind Halster. Actually, get it right to his right. Okay. Atticus?

Okay. And you're all using Halster's light, yes? Yep. Well, I have dark vision. You have dark vision, okay. For what it's worth.

So now that you're deep in the room, Atticus, you can see, once you start moving along the wall, the rest of the room, and you see there's a third Onerogen. Oh, God. I hate this goddamn fog of war. I know. I should have seen that a long time ago. I thought it was a wall.

Looks like a stairway that kept going up that's completely crumbled, and you can see at the landing, like, there's no third floor anymore. Is the ceiling still there? It's sagging, but it's still there. It's probably more treacherous where there's no wall to the north. As you, all four of you, step into this area here near the Onerogen,

a couple of interesting things happen. Obviously, Sir Julie starts to feel really tired as she gets right up on top of this Onerogen. But at the same time, all four of you even though there are three of these creatures

and you know that they could put you to sleep and kill you if the timing doesn't work out correctly you're all drawn to the wall of pictures oh no and there's something in it

that just fascinates you. This is awful. And you just keep staring and staring and staring. Blackout. Blackout. We now see a dusty clapboard town in the middle of a red clay desert. A rusty windmill rotates lazily, emitting an occasional lonely creak.

In the distance, a lone figure atop a rattling carriage Drawn by a team of gaunt bacterian camels It slowly rambles towards the town Drawing the attention of milling townsfolk It pulls into what must be the town square Startling a mob of odd long-eared creatures And sending them hopping away into the brush The man hops down mob of odd, long-eared creatures and sending them hopping away into the brush. The man hops down,

pulling a pair of latches on the side of the carriage, and we see the words Doc Aldo's Marvelous Traveling Medicine Show emblazoned in fanciful letters on the side. The wall swings aside, revealing a makeshift stage hidden within. The man that we've come to know as Aldo Casimir climbs atop it and clears his throat. Hear ye, hear ye, good people of... He looks around for a signpost.

Elizabeth's Hollow, a moment of your time, please, as I wish to draw your attention to a true miracle, a fantastic substance which has improved and lengthened lives around the globe, from Shanghai to Sheffield. That's it. Gather close. Don't be shy. A crowd of sunburned locals begin to gather, and he continues. The powers of this magnificent elixir are beyond hyperbole. It has been known to cure consumption, eliminate excess cata,

even to inspire more spirited relations with the opposite sex. He winks. Why, I have it on the best authority that our dear queen herself did treat her much-adored Prince Albert with this very tonic while he was in his sickbed. Prince Albert's dead! A sheepherder in the crowd volunteers. Only because he ran out.

Had he the foresight to stockpile a sufficient supply, he might still be alive and well at his beloved queen's side to this very day. He died on 1861. Did you sell him this stuff when you were four? Ha ha ha ha were four? Chuckles from the crowd.

Indeed not. Well observed, Mr... Andy. Mr. Andy, I commend you on your comprehensive knowledge of our monarchy. It is true, I was but a boy at the time. The tonic was not provided to His Royal Highness by me, but by my cherished father who received knowledge of its concoction from his father who received it from his father who received it from his great uncle whom legend says discovered its formula while on expedition in the deepest jungles of cathay where it is told it would extend the lives of their heathen chieftains for hundreds of years. Now, I cannot swear that you will live as long as those ancient people, but I can

promise that with but a daily spoonful of Professor Casimir's miraculous cure-all and general wellness tonic, you may well be alive to enjoy your great-great-grandchildren at play in... looks around... that trough over there. So, for the low, low price of four no three shillings a bottle was up a bottle

you too could be blessed with a long and hail existence now at that moment a group of redcoat soldiers emerged from the ramshackle town hall and they move towards the crowd I see your town has been graced by the presence of the Royal Army. Sweat beads on his upper lip. How fortunate. The officer shouts,

Is your name Aldo Kazimier? A low rumble of thunder is heard in the distance. No. It says Aldo there on your stagecoach, mate. Thank you, Andy. He steps forward. Gentlemen, I fear this is all just a tragic misunderstanding. Aldo Casimir, the officer continues,

on authority of Queen Victoria's colonial government, I hereby place you under arrest on suspicion of the poisoning of Emily Braithwaite, only daughter of Major General Sir George Napier Braithwaite. The crowd murmurs as the soldiers make their way towards the stage. He suddenly grabs a clay pot from his shelf behind him and throws it into the crowd. It explodes in a cloud of orange smoke and blue sparks. throws it into the crowd. It explodes in a cloud of orange smoke and blue sparks. Amid the sounds of coughing and

retching, he leaps with astonishing quickness into the driver's seat of the coach, and with a pull of the lever, the stage doors slam shut. Gah! The camels bolt with a snap of the reins. All right, you old wizard. He peers into the satchel at his side, appearing

to address a book called On the Conjunction of Worlds by O.A. Diggs. Let's hope you're a better geographer than a bloody chemist. The coach races off down a dirt road out of the town toward a darkening sky in the distance.

And we will see you tomorrow night for the finale of Strange Book One! Book one finale! We're finishing it tomorrow, sons of bitches! We're going to do it! We love you guys! Thank you for hanging out!

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